Ya, it can. Sometimes it can take even longer...
But let's stick to the case in point.
Back in the day, when your female high school students got themselves knocked up, it quite often meant the termination of their academic career.
Objection 1. There are no "female" students. Gender labels are a tool of the patriarchy.
Objection 2. Nobody, regardless of gender, gets themselves knocked up. It will require the assistance of at least one other non-gendered person of the other non-gender.
So just to keep things professional, let's call this person Jane Doe.
When Jane dropped out of high school, she short-circuited a lot of options in life. She found herself waiting tables at the local sports bar.
Every Friday a couple of guys from the high school dropped by to chat her up and drink lots of beer. They became comrades in arms.
Objection 3. She didn't short-circuit anything - the patriarchy did.
Objection 4. Comrades in arms? That used to be called Stockholm Syndrome.
They convinced her she had what it takes to get a job at the very school that had shunned her years before. They even tipped her to a job opening and provided references.
Objection 5. Typical patriarchal exploitation of desperate single mothers.
Fast forward fifty years or so.
Jane Doe is a forty year veteran school board employee. Thirty-nine years ago she suffered a concussion after being struck in the head by a basketball in a Phys-ed class.
She's been on long-term disability at 90% pay ever since!
Karma gave her the last laugh.
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