Teachers with over 10 absences

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes.

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer.

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care.

I get frustrated when people who are outside of the profession speak as if they are experts. I snorted at your notion of “incredible amounts of time off on weekdays.” You are laughably ignorant of a teacher’s true schedule.

If saying it’s hard to make appointments after 4:30 makes me “entitled,” then I’ll happily own it. This just ventured into silliness.

If you teach in Fairfax County, you have 39 weekdays days off between August and June. Most professions don’t offer 39 days off between January and December. Check your privilege.

Where are you getting 39 days off during the school year? You would have to count holidays and teacher workdays to reach 39, and we work on workdays. Oh, and the holidays that we are so privileged to have off are not paid days off. You are either a troll or completely clueless and you have a strange definition of privilege.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes.

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer.

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care.

I get frustrated when people who are outside of the profession speak as if they are experts. I snorted at your notion of “incredible amounts of time off on weekdays.” You are laughably ignorant of a teacher’s true schedule.

If saying it’s hard to make appointments after 4:30 makes me “entitled,” then I’ll happily own it. This just ventured into silliness.

If you teach in Fairfax County, you have 39 weekdays days off between August and June. Most professions don’t offer 39 days off between January and December. Check your privilege.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes.

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer.

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care.

I get frustrated when people who are outside of the profession speak as if they are experts. I snorted at your notion of “incredible amounts of time off on weekdays.” You are laughably ignorant of a teacher’s true schedule.

If saying it’s hard to make appointments after 4:30 makes me “entitled,” then I’ll happily own it. This just ventured into silliness.

Please don't feed the troll. If this profession was as flexible and privileged as this poster keeps arguing that it is, it wouldn't be such a struggle to staff classrooms with qualified teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes.

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer.

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care.

I get frustrated when people who are outside of the profession speak as if they are experts. I snorted at your notion of “incredible amounts of time off on weekdays.” You are laughably ignorant of a teacher’s true schedule.

If saying it’s hard to make appointments after 4:30 makes me “entitled,” then I’ll happily own it. This just ventured into silliness.

If you teach in Fairfax County, you have 39 weekdays days off between August and June. Most professions don’t offer 39 days off between January and December. Check your privilege.

Where are you getting 39 days off during the school year? You would have to count holidays and teacher workdays to reach 39, and we work on workdays. Oh, and the holidays that we are so privileged to have off are not paid days off. You are either a troll or completely clueless and you have a strange definition of privilege.

Why does it matter if its a paid day off to go to the doctor? Doctors are open during the school breaks and since most school-age kids aren't getting colonoscopies its no harder to schedule.

One-off illnesses aren’t leading to the prolonged absences.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes.

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer.

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care.

I get frustrated when people who are outside of the profession speak as if they are experts. I snorted at your notion of “incredible amounts of time off on weekdays.” You are laughably ignorant of a teacher’s true schedule.

If saying it’s hard to make appointments after 4:30 makes me “entitled,” then I’ll happily own it. This just ventured into silliness.

Please don't feed the troll. If this profession was as flexible and privileged as this poster keeps arguing that it is, it wouldn't be such a struggle to staff classrooms with qualified teachers.

Fairfax doesn’t have a teacher shortage and isn’t taking sub applications. Your talking point belongs in another forum, or another year.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes.

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer.

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care.

I get frustrated when people who are outside of the profession speak as if they are experts. I snorted at your notion of “incredible amounts of time off on weekdays.” You are laughably ignorant of a teacher’s true schedule.

If saying it’s hard to make appointments after 4:30 makes me “entitled,” then I’ll happily own it. This just ventured into silliness.

If you teach in Fairfax County, you have 39 weekdays days off between August and June. Most professions don’t offer 39 days off between January and December. Check your privilege.

Not a teacher but many professionals also make a heck of a lot more money than teachers.

You’re quick to continue to quote the 39 summer weekdays but you don’t mention anything about the evening and weekend hours teachers also work during the school year, well over their technical contract hours.

Not sure why you hate teachers so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There really is no reason to save up a lot of your leave.

Our district only pays us for 1/4 of unused sick days when we retire. So.....I will use them because I can and if I don't, I won't be paid for them.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes.

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer.

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care.

I get frustrated when people who are outside of the profession speak as if they are experts. I snorted at your notion of “incredible amounts of time off on weekdays.” You are laughably ignorant of a teacher’s true schedule.

If saying it’s hard to make appointments after 4:30 makes me “entitled,” then I’ll happily own it. This just ventured into silliness.

Please don't feed the troll. If this profession was as flexible and privileged as this poster keeps arguing that it is, it wouldn't be such a struggle to staff classrooms with qualified teachers.

Fairfax doesn’t have a teacher shortage and isn’t taking sub applications. Your talking point belongs in another forum, or another year.

Oh, sweet summer child, are you not aware of how many provisionally-licensed teachers we currently have in classrooms right now? This is a profession that people are leaving quickly.

We are talking about teachers, not substitutes, and this is the beginning of the staffing need for next year:

https://careers.fcps.edu/vl/vacancy.htm

Maybe you can find something that interests you on the list? Plenty of privilege to go around!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There really is no reason to save up a lot of your leave.

Our district only pays us for 1/4 of unused sick days when we retire. So.....I will use them because I can and if I don't, I won't be paid for them.

FCPS pays out zero unless you are on the legacy plan, so there is zero reason to keep more than a few weeks banked to burn for short term disability should you need it.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes.

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer.

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care.

I get frustrated when people who are outside of the profession speak as if they are experts. I snorted at your notion of “incredible amounts of time off on weekdays.” You are laughably ignorant of a teacher’s true schedule.

If saying it’s hard to make appointments after 4:30 makes me “entitled,” then I’ll happily own it. This just ventured into silliness.

If you teach in Fairfax County, you have 39 weekdays days off between August and June. Most professions don’t offer 39 days off between January and December. Check your privilege.

Not a teacher but many professionals also make a heck of a lot more money than teachers.

You’re quick to continue to quote the 39 summer weekdays but you don’t mention anything about the evening and weekend hours teachers also work during the school year, well over their technical contract hours.

Not sure why you hate teachers so much.

You misunderstand. There are 39 non-classroom weekdays during the school. No subs. No plans. Doctors offices all open (other than major Xmas/Thanksgiving).

I don’t hate teachers. I have them in my family and among my friends. But NONE of them would get on the internet and say they had a hard time scheduling doctors appointments.

[Anonymous]

Coincidentally, the people I know who MOST despise teachers taking extravagant midyear vacations and posting about them on social media are…other teachers. Even the ones who say they’re not on social media…kids are in a girl-scout troop and brag about the beach to the other kids, then it’s in the mom’s chat and the bus stop knows. Now every sub, the parents imagine not the flu but a vacation.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes.

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer.

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care.

Again, people still need medical care between August and June.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a job offers 10 days of paid leave, why is it wrong for an employee to take 10 days of paid leave?

Absolutely nothing, and they can take those days whenever they like.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes.

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer.

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care.

Again, people still need medical care between August and June.

No one says they don’t. But it isn’t what drives prolonged teacher absenteeism.

[Anonymous]

I’m about to be out for three weeks. I truly don’t give a damn what you think about it nor is it any of your business why I’m out. It’s all paid, too. They’re called sick days for a reason.