Another pregnant teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s annoying and inconvenient but the teacher is looking out for #1 (herself and her unborn child) as she should be.

We need to think of teaching more cold-bloodedly as a real profession and not some sacrificial call of duty where we expect more from teachers because they genuinely love kids and do it for the kids. If my manager or company asked me to do something I didn’t want to because of my genuine love for spreadsheets I would tell them to STFU.

In that case, money from contracts should be withheld until the contract is over. It would be no different from companies using year end bonuses with delayed payouts to retain employees

Yeah, withholding someone’s pay because they took maternity leave would be significantly different than that.

Anyway, have fun at your dead-end middle-management job today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s annoying and inconvenient but the teacher is looking out for #1 (herself and her unborn child) as she should be.

We need to think of teaching more cold-bloodedly as a real profession and not some sacrificial call of duty where we expect more from teachers because they genuinely love kids and do it for the kids. If my manager or company asked me to do something I didn’t want to because of my genuine love for spreadsheets I would tell them to STFU.

In that case, money from contracts should be withheld until the contract is over. It would be no different from companies using year end bonuses with delayed payouts to retain employees

I think you guys are under the impression that the yearly contract we signed hold some type of power. It does not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:3rd year teacher is pregnant and won’t be back after Spring Break. They will try to find a long term sub for her, but who knows if they will. She is only 12 weeks pregnant and doesn’t have any issues with the pregnancy. i just don’t understand why doesn’t she stay till the end since the baby won’t be due for another 6 months…

You're a parent of a student. How would you remotely know if she "doesn't have any issues with the pregnancy"? If she said that to you or others, you have no idea if she was telling the truth. In her situation I wouldn't tell parents if I had health issues in pregnancy or anything else.

You're just sore that your kid will "lose" a teacher for the last part of the year. We get that. But dont' go around making out as if you know this woman or her actual situation outside school. She does not work for YOU. She works for the school and makes whatever arrangements she needs to make with them, not you or your child.

So many parents don't get this, or pretend not to. I was a 12 month teacher so if I had to take care of anything or take vacation it had to be when I had students in session.
Most parents understood this but I had parents that would act like I had no right to use my vacation time (or sick leave for that matter), ever.

I left at 28 weeks pregnant because I was planning to SAH anyway. There was no point in being uncomfortable by the end for so little pay and much stress. If I had any complications I would have left earlier.

Oh you poor thing. . . I worked commuting into DC until the day I gave birth. Uncomfortable . . . LOL.

Look, the thing is, leave. Don't leave. Take time off. Don't take time off. But the fact is you ARE accountable to the kids and their parents. You may think you're not, and it's kind of funny how many teachers on here think that, but you are. You have every right to take your leave, but don't think that you being out all the time (and there teachers that are) and having that affect the kids, is going to make parents respect you very much. They won't.

I feel like some posters have undiagnosed issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s annoying and inconvenient but the teacher is looking out for #1 (herself and her unborn child) as she should be.

We need to think of teaching more cold-bloodedly as a real profession and not some sacrificial call of duty where we expect more from teachers because they genuinely love kids and do it for the kids. If my manager or company asked me to do something I didn’t want to because of my genuine love for spreadsheets I would tell them to STFU.

In that case, money from contracts should be withheld until the contract is over. It would be no different from companies using year end bonuses with delayed payouts to retain employees

It would be very different since their pay is their pay and not a bonus. Maybe you could just go back to the days of female teachers not being allowed to get married, and banishing single, pregnant women from the community. While you're at it, the teacher should ge thereafter 5 AM To start the stove and scrub the floor.

[Anonymous]

* be there at 5 AM*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd year teacher is pregnant and won’t be back after Spring Break. They will try to find a long term sub for her, but who knows if they will. She is only 12 weeks pregnant and doesn’t have any issues with the pregnancy. i just don’t understand why doesn’t she stay till the end since the baby won’t be due for another 6 months…

You're a parent of a student. How would you remotely know if she "doesn't have any issues with the pregnancy"? If she said that to you or others, you have no idea if she was telling the truth. In her situation I wouldn't tell parents if I had health issues in pregnancy or anything else.

You're just sore that your kid will "lose" a teacher for the last part of the year. We get that. But dont' go around making out as if you know this woman or her actual situation outside school. She does not work for YOU. She works for the school and makes whatever arrangements she needs to make with them, not you or your child.

So many parents don't get this, or pretend not to. I was a 12 month teacher so if I had to take care of anything or take vacation it had to be when I had students in session.
Most parents understood this but I had parents that would act like I had no right to use my vacation time (or sick leave for that matter), ever.

I left at 28 weeks pregnant because I was planning to SAH anyway. There was no point in being uncomfortable by the end for so little pay and much stress. If I had any complications I would have left earlier.

Oh you poor thing. . . I worked commuting into DC until the day I gave birth. Uncomfortable . . . LOL.

Look, the thing is, leave. Don't leave. Take time off. Don't take time off. But the fact is you ARE accountable to the kids and their parents. You may think you're not, and it's kind of funny how many teachers on here think that, but you are. You have every right to take your leave, but don't think that you being out all the time (and there teachers that are) and having that affect the kids, is going to make parents respect you very much. They won't.

I feel like some posters have undiagnosed issues.

I'm a NP, but I don't understand why it is not ok to discuss the impact that mid-year teacher departures have on students. There are plenty of studies on this showing that both excessive absences and mid-year departures have a detrimental impact on student learning. This has been happening for years, but the impact on students is even worse following the pandemic closures. It's difficult for anyone, adults or children, to be motivated to learn and engage with a system that shows little regard for their needs. This has nothing to do with individual teachers or their reasons for leaving but everything to do with what kids are experiencing and what the adults in their lives are showing them. There's little stability, and that does not promote engagement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd year teacher is pregnant and won’t be back after Spring Break. They will try to find a long term sub for her, but who knows if they will. She is only 12 weeks pregnant and doesn’t have any issues with the pregnancy. i just don’t understand why doesn’t she stay till the end since the baby won’t be due for another 6 months…

You're a parent of a student. How would you remotely know if she "doesn't have any issues with the pregnancy"? If she said that to you or others, you have no idea if she was telling the truth. In her situation I wouldn't tell parents if I had health issues in pregnancy or anything else.

You're just sore that your kid will "lose" a teacher for the last part of the year. We get that. But dont' go around making out as if you know this woman or her actual situation outside school. She does not work for YOU. She works for the school and makes whatever arrangements she needs to make with them, not you or your child.

So many parents don't get this, or pretend not to. I was a 12 month teacher so if I had to take care of anything or take vacation it had to be when I had students in session.
Most parents understood this but I had parents that would act like I had no right to use my vacation time (or sick leave for that matter), ever.

I left at 28 weeks pregnant because I was planning to SAH anyway. There was no point in being uncomfortable by the end for so little pay and much stress. If I had any complications I would have left earlier.

Oh you poor thing. . . I worked commuting into DC until the day I gave birth. Uncomfortable . . . LOL.

Look, the thing is, leave. Don't leave. Take time off. Don't take time off. But the fact is you ARE accountable to the kids and their parents. You may think you're not, and it's kind of funny how many teachers on here think that, but you are. You have every right to take your leave, but don't think that you being out all the time (and there teachers that are) and having that affect the kids, is going to make parents respect you very much. They won't.

I feel like some posters have undiagnosed issues.

I'm a NP, but I don't understand why it is not ok to discuss the impact that mid-year teacher departures have on students. There are plenty of studies on this showing that both excessive absences and mid-year departures have a detrimental impact on student learning. This has been happening for years, but the impact on students is even worse following the pandemic closures. It's difficult for anyone, adults or children, to be motivated to learn and engage with a system that shows little regard for their needs. This has nothing to do with individual teachers or their reasons for leaving but everything to do with what kids are experiencing and what the adults in their lives are showing them. There's little stability, and that does not promote engagement.

Because teachers are real people who are absolutely within their right to take maternity leave? I am not discounting the fact that excessive absences are bad for student learning, but the stability in their lives should come from their families. The idea that parents on this forum are saying that they are entitled to a young women's labor is obscene.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd year teacher is pregnant and won’t be back after Spring Break. They will try to find a long term sub for her, but who knows if they will. She is only 12 weeks pregnant and doesn’t have any issues with the pregnancy. i just don’t understand why doesn’t she stay till the end since the baby won’t be due for another 6 months…

You're a parent of a student. How would you remotely know if she "doesn't have any issues with the pregnancy"? If she said that to you or others, you have no idea if she was telling the truth. In her situation I wouldn't tell parents if I had health issues in pregnancy or anything else.

You're just sore that your kid will "lose" a teacher for the last part of the year. We get that. But dont' go around making out as if you know this woman or her actual situation outside school. She does not work for YOU. She works for the school and makes whatever arrangements she needs to make with them, not you or your child.

So many parents don't get this, or pretend not to. I was a 12 month teacher so if I had to take care of anything or take vacation it had to be when I had students in session.
Most parents understood this but I had parents that would act like I had no right to use my vacation time (or sick leave for that matter), ever.

I left at 28 weeks pregnant because I was planning to SAH anyway. There was no point in being uncomfortable by the end for so little pay and much stress. If I had any complications I would have left earlier.

Oh you poor thing. . . I worked commuting into DC until the day I gave birth. Uncomfortable . . . LOL.

Look, the thing is, leave. Don't leave. Take time off. Don't take time off. But the fact is you ARE accountable to the kids and their parents. You may think you're not, and it's kind of funny how many teachers on here think that, but you are. You have every right to take your leave, but don't think that you being out all the time (and there teachers that are) and having that affect the kids, is going to make parents respect you very much. They won't.

I feel like some posters have undiagnosed issues.

I'm a NP, but I don't understand why it is not ok to discuss the impact that mid-year teacher departures have on students. There are plenty of studies on this showing that both excessive absences and mid-year departures have a detrimental impact on student learning. This has been happening for years, but the impact on students is even worse following the pandemic closures. It's difficult for anyone, adults or children, to be motivated to learn and engage with a system that shows little regard for their needs. This has nothing to do with individual teachers or their reasons for leaving but everything to do with what kids are experiencing and what the adults in their lives are showing them. There's little stability, and that does not promote engagement.

Damn human teachers. We need Droid teachers. None of these human being issues, they could be updated with new information so meetings are unnecessary. Parents would still have a building full of babysitters so their work day isn't inconvenienced.

Without the human absence issues, students would have stability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd year teacher is pregnant and won’t be back after Spring Break. They will try to find a long term sub for her, but who knows if they will. She is only 12 weeks pregnant and doesn’t have any issues with the pregnancy. i just don’t understand why doesn’t she stay till the end since the baby won’t be due for another 6 months…

You're a parent of a student. How would you remotely know if she "doesn't have any issues with the pregnancy"? If she said that to you or others, you have no idea if she was telling the truth. In her situation I wouldn't tell parents if I had health issues in pregnancy or anything else.

You're just sore that your kid will "lose" a teacher for the last part of the year. We get that. But dont' go around making out as if you know this woman or her actual situation outside school. She does not work for YOU. She works for the school and makes whatever arrangements she needs to make with them, not you or your child.

So many parents don't get this, or pretend not to. I was a 12 month teacher so if I had to take care of anything or take vacation it had to be when I had students in session.
Most parents understood this but I had parents that would act like I had no right to use my vacation time (or sick leave for that matter), ever.

I left at 28 weeks pregnant because I was planning to SAH anyway. There was no point in being uncomfortable by the end for so little pay and much stress. If I had any complications I would have left earlier.

Oh you poor thing. . . I worked commuting into DC until the day I gave birth. Uncomfortable . . . LOL.

Look, the thing is, leave. Don't leave. Take time off. Don't take time off. But the fact is you ARE accountable to the kids and their parents. You may think you're not, and it's kind of funny how many teachers on here think that, but you are. You have every right to take your leave, but don't think that you being out all the time (and there teachers that are) and having that affect the kids, is going to make parents respect you very much. They won't.

I feel like some posters have undiagnosed issues.

I'm a NP, but I don't understand why it is not ok to discuss the impact that mid-year teacher departures have on students. There are plenty of studies on this showing that both excessive absences and mid-year departures have a detrimental impact on student learning. This has been happening for years, but the impact on students is even worse following the pandemic closures. It's difficult for anyone, adults or children, to be motivated to learn and engage with a system that shows little regard for their needs. This has nothing to do with individual teachers or their reasons for leaving but everything to do with what kids are experiencing and what the adults in their lives are showing them. There's little stability, and that does not promote engagement.

Any job has people who don't stay all the way through their projects or in the case of medicine, their patients. Do you really expect at all M.D.s will stay at a hospital because they have patients undergoing procedures. Unless they are one of a kind, with only that doctor being the only one to do the work, they'll probably hand off to another M.D. and move on.

Maybe you say that since the teacher has been with your child since the beginning of the year, that they are in a "one of a kind" position.
Well I have news for you. "One of a knd" people are highly compensated. And frankly teachers don't fall into that level.

People only talk like this about teachers probably because it's female dominated and people hate being inconvenienced by the help.
There is no way a male dominated industry would even bother to respond to some of the parental blaming of teachers I'm hearing on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd year teacher is pregnant and won’t be back after Spring Break. They will try to find a long term sub for her, but who knows if they will. She is only 12 weeks pregnant and doesn’t have any issues with the pregnancy. i just don’t understand why doesn’t she stay till the end since the baby won’t be due for another 6 months…

You're a parent of a student. How would you remotely know if she "doesn't have any issues with the pregnancy"? If she said that to you or others, you have no idea if she was telling the truth. In her situation I wouldn't tell parents if I had health issues in pregnancy or anything else.

You're just sore that your kid will "lose" a teacher for the last part of the year. We get that. But dont' go around making out as if you know this woman or her actual situation outside school. She does not work for YOU. She works for the school and makes whatever arrangements she needs to make with them, not you or your child.

So many parents don't get this, or pretend not to. I was a 12 month teacher so if I had to take care of anything or take vacation it had to be when I had students in session.
Most parents understood this but I had parents that would act like I had no right to use my vacation time (or sick leave for that matter), ever.

I left at 28 weeks pregnant because I was planning to SAH anyway. There was no point in being uncomfortable by the end for so little pay and much stress. If I had any complications I would have left earlier.

Oh you poor thing. . . I worked commuting into DC until the day I gave birth. Uncomfortable . . . LOL.

Look, the thing is, leave. Don't leave. Take time off. Don't take time off. But the fact is you ARE accountable to the kids and their parents. You may think you're not, and it's kind of funny how many teachers on here think that, but you are. You have every right to take your leave, but don't think that you being out all the time (and there teachers that are) and having that affect the kids, is going to make parents respect you very much. They won't.

I feel like some posters have undiagnosed issues.

I'm a NP, but I don't understand why it is not ok to discuss the impact that mid-year teacher departures have on students. There are plenty of studies on this showing that both excessive absences and mid-year departures have a detrimental impact on student learning. This has been happening for years, but the impact on students is even worse following the pandemic closures. It's difficult for anyone, adults or children, to be motivated to learn and engage with a system that shows little regard for their needs. This has nothing to do with individual teachers or their reasons for leaving but everything to do with what kids are experiencing and what the adults in their lives are showing them. There's little stability, and that does not promote engagement.

Because teachers are real people who are absolutely within their right to take maternity leave? I am not discounting the fact that excessive absences are bad for student learning, but the stability in their lives should come from their families. The idea that parents on this forum are saying that they are entitled to a young women's labor is obscene.

I'm the PP, and I was not demanding anyone's labor. I was merely pointing out that we need to talk about teacher absences and departures and the lack of adequate substitutes when those absence and departures occur. They are hurting kids who are already hurting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd year teacher is pregnant and won’t be back after Spring Break. They will try to find a long term sub for her, but who knows if they will. She is only 12 weeks pregnant and doesn’t have any issues with the pregnancy. i just don’t understand why doesn’t she stay till the end since the baby won’t be due for another 6 months…

You're a parent of a student. How would you remotely know if she "doesn't have any issues with the pregnancy"? If she said that to you or others, you have no idea if she was telling the truth. In her situation I wouldn't tell parents if I had health issues in pregnancy or anything else.

You're just sore that your kid will "lose" a teacher for the last part of the year. We get that. But dont' go around making out as if you know this woman or her actual situation outside school. She does not work for YOU. She works for the school and makes whatever arrangements she needs to make with them, not you or your child.

So many parents don't get this, or pretend not to. I was a 12 month teacher so if I had to take care of anything or take vacation it had to be when I had students in session.
Most parents understood this but I had parents that would act like I had no right to use my vacation time (or sick leave for that matter), ever.

I left at 28 weeks pregnant because I was planning to SAH anyway. There was no point in being uncomfortable by the end for so little pay and much stress. If I had any complications I would have left earlier.

Oh you poor thing. . . I worked commuting into DC until the day I gave birth. Uncomfortable . . . LOL.

Look, the thing is, leave. Don't leave. Take time off. Don't take time off. But the fact is you ARE accountable to the kids and their parents. You may think you're not, and it's kind of funny how many teachers on here think that, but you are. You have every right to take your leave, but don't think that you being out all the time (and there teachers that are) and having that affect the kids, is going to make parents respect you very much. They won't.

I feel like some posters have undiagnosed issues.

I'm a NP, but I don't understand why it is not ok to discuss the impact that mid-year teacher departures have on students. There are plenty of studies on this showing that both excessive absences and mid-year departures have a detrimental impact on student learning. This has been happening for years, but the impact on students is even worse following the pandemic closures. It's difficult for anyone, adults or children, to be motivated to learn and engage with a system that shows little regard for their needs. This has nothing to do with individual teachers or their reasons for leaving but everything to do with what kids are experiencing and what the adults in their lives are showing them. There's little stability, and that does not promote engagement.

Because teachers are real people who are absolutely within their right to take maternity leave? I am not discounting the fact that excessive absences are bad for student learning, but the stability in their lives should come from their families. The idea that parents on this forum are saying that they are entitled to a young women's labor is obscene.

I'm the PP, and I was not demanding anyone's labor. I was merely pointing out that we need to talk about teacher absences and departures and the lack of adequate substitutes when those absence and departures occur. They are hurting kids who are already hurting.

That was not the tone of the OP.
You are right. You should take it up with your school administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd year teacher is pregnant and won’t be back after Spring Break. They will try to find a long term sub for her, but who knows if they will. She is only 12 weeks pregnant and doesn’t have any issues with the pregnancy. i just don’t understand why doesn’t she stay till the end since the baby won’t be due for another 6 months…

You're a parent of a student. How would you remotely know if she "doesn't have any issues with the pregnancy"? If she said that to you or others, you have no idea if she was telling the truth. In her situation I wouldn't tell parents if I had health issues in pregnancy or anything else.

You're just sore that your kid will "lose" a teacher for the last part of the year. We get that. But dont' go around making out as if you know this woman or her actual situation outside school. She does not work for YOU. She works for the school and makes whatever arrangements she needs to make with them, not you or your child.

So many parents don't get this, or pretend not to. I was a 12 month teacher so if I had to take care of anything or take vacation it had to be when I had students in session.
Most parents understood this but I had parents that would act like I had no right to use my vacation time (or sick leave for that matter), ever.

I left at 28 weeks pregnant because I was planning to SAH anyway. There was no point in being uncomfortable by the end for so little pay and much stress. If I had any complications I would have left earlier.

Oh you poor thing. . . I worked commuting into DC until the day I gave birth. Uncomfortable . . . LOL.

Look, the thing is, leave. Don't leave. Take time off. Don't take time off. But the fact is you ARE accountable to the kids and their parents. You may think you're not, and it's kind of funny how many teachers on here think that, but you are. You have every right to take your leave, but don't think that you being out all the time (and there teachers that are) and having that affect the kids, is going to make parents respect you very much. They won't.

I feel like some posters have undiagnosed issues.

I'm a NP, but I don't understand why it is not ok to discuss the impact that mid-year teacher departures have on students. There are plenty of studies on this showing that both excessive absences and mid-year departures have a detrimental impact on student learning. This has been happening for years, but the impact on students is even worse following the pandemic closures. It's difficult for anyone, adults or children, to be motivated to learn and engage with a system that shows little regard for their needs. This has nothing to do with individual teachers or their reasons for leaving but everything to do with what kids are experiencing and what the adults in their lives are showing them. There's little stability, and that does not promote engagement.

Damn human teachers. We need Droid teachers. None of these human being issues, they could be updated with new information so meetings are unnecessary. Parents would still have a building full of babysitters so their work day isn't inconvenienced.

Without the human absence issues, students would have stability.

Funnily enough, we’re heading down that path now. The same parents who screamed bloody murder that their kids had school remotely during a deadly pandemic will fish over their remote AI-based “teacher” who never has to take a sick day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd year teacher is pregnant and won’t be back after Spring Break. They will try to find a long term sub for her, but who knows if they will. She is only 12 weeks pregnant and doesn’t have any issues with the pregnancy. i just don’t understand why doesn’t she stay till the end since the baby won’t be due for another 6 months…

You're a parent of a student. How would you remotely know if she "doesn't have any issues with the pregnancy"? If she said that to you or others, you have no idea if she was telling the truth. In her situation I wouldn't tell parents if I had health issues in pregnancy or anything else.

You're just sore that your kid will "lose" a teacher for the last part of the year. We get that. But dont' go around making out as if you know this woman or her actual situation outside school. She does not work for YOU. She works for the school and makes whatever arrangements she needs to make with them, not you or your child.

So many parents don't get this, or pretend not to. I was a 12 month teacher so if I had to take care of anything or take vacation it had to be when I had students in session.
Most parents understood this but I had parents that would act like I had no right to use my vacation time (or sick leave for that matter), ever.

I left at 28 weeks pregnant because I was planning to SAH anyway. There was no point in being uncomfortable by the end for so little pay and much stress. If I had any complications I would have left earlier.

Oh you poor thing. . . I worked commuting into DC until the day I gave birth. Uncomfortable . . . LOL.

Look, the thing is, leave. Don't leave. Take time off. Don't take time off. But the fact is you ARE accountable to the kids and their parents. You may think you're not, and it's kind of funny how many teachers on here think that, but you are. You have every right to take your leave, but don't think that you being out all the time (and there teachers that are) and having that affect the kids, is going to make parents respect you very much. They won't.

I feel like some posters have undiagnosed issues.

I'm a NP, but I don't understand why it is not ok to discuss the impact that mid-year teacher departures have on students. There are plenty of studies on this showing that both excessive absences and mid-year departures have a detrimental impact on student learning. This has been happening for years, but the impact on students is even worse following the pandemic closures. It's difficult for anyone, adults or children, to be motivated to learn and engage with a system that shows little regard for their needs. This has nothing to do with individual teachers or their reasons for leaving but everything to do with what kids are experiencing and what the adults in their lives are showing them. There's little stability, and that does not promote engagement.

Because teachers are real people who are absolutely within their right to take maternity leave? I am not discounting the fact that excessive absences are bad for student learning, but the stability in their lives should come from their families. The idea that parents on this forum are saying that they are entitled to a young women's labor is obscene.

I'm the PP, and I was not demanding anyone's labor. I was merely pointing out that we need to talk about teacher absences and departures and the lack of adequate substitutes when those absence and departures occur. They are hurting kids who are already hurting.

That is an administrative and staffing issue, not a teacher taking leave issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s annoying and inconvenient but the teacher is looking out for #1 (herself and her unborn child) as she should be.

We need to think of teaching more cold-bloodedly as a real profession and not some sacrificial call of duty where we expect more from teachers because they genuinely love kids and do it for the kids. If my manager or company asked me to do something I didn’t want to because of my genuine love for spreadsheets I would tell them to STFU.

In that case, money from contracts should be withheld until the contract is over. It would be no different from companies using year end bonuses with delayed payouts to retain employees

Is it not? Is the teacher paid for the whole year even though they quit part way? I really doubt that. And if it’s true, it speaks to poor negotiating of contracts.

[Anonymous]

^ To clarify, I mean that if a teacher quits with 25% of the year left, then they shouldn’t be paid for that remainder. Just like if I quit my job, the biweekly paychecks stop coming.