Being pregnant naturally garners a little sympathy; people will
typically give up their seat for a pregnant woman, people ask to help her reach for things and lift things, and more people even seem to...
Instead, ESSA has puffed
up the role of state departments of education (whose staff is mainly appointed) and, to a lesser extent, the (mostly appointed) boards of education
typically in charge of them, with members who tend to follow the directives they have been
given if they want to keep their
seats.