Great point, and it's ironic that within living memory, that's how pregnant teachers used to be treated. They were expected to leave the classroom before they started to show. So the children would not be exposed to the, I don't know, the sexuality of it?

Whatever the reason, it was a firm taboo.

Stemming out of traditional American puritism, I presume. That same kind of puritanism just saw a non-binary person who performs as a heavy metal drag king on weekends resign from their teaching position after community bullying and death threats.

They said there was no way for them to effectively return to the classroom in the face of the intense hatred they were receiving from many of their students' parents.

For dancing and lip syncing to heavy metal in fully-clothed, highly stylized male drag.

Yeah.

They used to treat pregnant teachers like that too. Out, cursed spot!