Jahdziah St. Julien, a research associate at the Better Life Lab at New America, describes the rules pertaining to teachers’ paid family and medical leave as “convoluted,” saying they “resemble those of a complicated board game specifically designed to make winning nearly impossible.”

“To help teachers, we must rewrite the rules of the paid leave game altogether,” St. Julien writes in an opinion piece for The Hechinger Report.

Read her full column here.