In elementary and middle school you usually don't have too many obligations to juggle. Homework, chores, maybe a club or sports team.
By high school, you might have a part-time job added to the mix, plus SAT prep and figuring out where you want to be after graduation.
Whereas you may have gone to school with the same peer group for a decade, once you get to a post-secondary level, the student body is far less homogenous.
With that wider range of people comes a wider range of obligations to juggle with classes and schoolwork.
Often, that can include finding reliable and affordable childcare.
Perhaps it's simply that their grades suffer due to missed classes or lack of study time, but it can often also mean dropping out entirely.
But Nathan Alexander, a visiting Professor of Mathematics at Morehouse College in Atlanta, took that to a whole new level.
Kudos to him for deciding to take the harder option. Many might have skipped class, but Hayer knows the importance of going.
Thankfully, he has a supportive professor, who went above and beyond. Alexander's act of kindness was shared on Twitter by Nick Vaughn.
So for the whole class, Alexander wore the baby carrier strapped to his chest and the kid was totally chill about it.
Hayer felt comfortable bringing her because Alexander had made it clear to his students that he's help them in any way he could.
"She was really well behaved," Alexander told Yahoo lifestyle, "I think we all enjoyed having her energy."
Other students quickly chimed in with their love of their professor.
"This brings attention to that fact that we need to sort of think about some of the systemic inequities for people that struggle with affording childcare," He said, "Women deal with this all the time as mothers, and so do men as fathers."
But until that's sorted out, we can depend on the good hearts of professors like him to ensure no one misses out on their education.
