Exams cost money to develop, administer and analyze. Administration requires
a process that makes it extremely difficult to cheat (in current culture
where it may be possible to have entire texts downloaded in a fairly small
hand-held device).  The cost to take the IBLCE exam quite likely reflects
the costs incurred for those processes. Costs are costs -- there is no free
lunch and there's no free exam. IBLCE employees do not appear to be raking
in the big salaries and bonuses from the exam.

The mother taking an understandably longer break for BF a young infant still
must be supervised during that break, which costs money. Perhaps, the only
fair way to handle this is to look at the average number of young BF babies
brought to the exam per year, calculate the cost to monitor BF breaks for
said candidates with babies, divide by usual number of candidates taking the
exam, and raise the fee for all candidates to cover the costs? Should we all
assume "support" for these candidates?

Must admit that for me the mother using a pumping room after a return to
work does not compute with need for supervision during a BF break during a
certification exam. An employee of the company is somehow adding to the
goods/services a company provides and therefore is contributing to the
revenue that company brings in or she won't be there for long... When
someone takes an exam, she, possibly her employer, and the public benefits
from her demonstrating a certain level of knowledge re: a particular
discipline -- the accrediting body seems to be the neutral party in the
process.


Karen Gromada
www.karengromada.com/
>
> By that reasoning a mother returning to work and needing to express should
> be paying for the set up of the pumping room. User pays for a breastfeeding
> candidate for the IBLCE is inexcusable, they should know better.
> Karleen Gribble
> Australia
>
> > I know what you mean that it seems as though this candidate is being
> > singled out
> > because of her special need and charge for it.  AND, the fact that it's
> > about
> > breastfeeding; 'it just don't seem fair'.
> > But if the exam were any other type of high level certification, I'm sure
> > she
> > would probably see these extra charges..that is, if she was even allowed
> > to
> > leave the room for more than a bathroom break.
> > Renee'

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