Teacher took yesterday off to be at the white house egg roll...

[Anonymous]

God, it's parents like you that made me quit the profession!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher, and I think that what your child's teacher did was somewhat ridiculous.

I do not respect my colleagues who miss school for non-essential reasons, and who take random days off for facetious reasons. It is disruptive to the kids, and robs them of learning time, and...we get many more days off each year than most other professions! I think it is really selfish, and it also signals to the kids and their parents that the teacher is not professional (and maybe encourages those who don't think teachers deserve professional respect).

My two laziest colleagues, the ones who cut the most corners and do the least amount of work when they ARE in school, are also the ones who take the most days off.

And yes, I really am a teacher.

Another teacher here. PP, you might need to re-evaluate the sub plans you're leaving if you believe that kids are not able to learn if you're not in the room with them. While it's not ideal to be out for extended periods of time, and while I feel your frustration for "those colleagues," I also know how to leave meaningful plans for my students when I cannot be there. Technology, especially flipped lessons, makes this so much easier than it used to be. Assuming that OP, or any teacher for that matter, not being in school equates to students not learning is unfounded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you serious? She has just as much right to bring her kids as you had to bring yours. Tons of kids who weren't on break missed school for the hunt yesterday.

This is such a non-issue and you sound ridiculous.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Teachers get PTO and vacation days, too.

If you can't deal with it, then home school.

So teachers get vacation days in addition to the designated "school vacation days"? I'm not trying to sound rude, this is just surprising to me.

[Anonymous]

If teacher got tickets, then I think it's a completely valid reason to take a day off work!! Hell, I did

OP is being ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Teachers get PTO and vacation days, too.

If you can't deal with it, then home school.

So teachers get vacation days in addition to the designated "school vacation days"? I'm not trying to sound rude, this is just surprising to me.

In FCPS, teachers accrue leave time. Each school year, they are allowed to use up to 5 of those days (it used to be 3 but was upped to 5 this year) for personal time.

I'm a teacher and have taken 3 so far this year: one to cheer on my best friend run a marathon on the other side of the country, one to celebrate my anniversary, and one to fly to a wedding. The personal days are helpful for those life events that don't occur during the "designated 'school vacation days.'"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God, it's parents like you that made me quit the profession!

+1

Also, why parents and teachers should NOT be friends on FB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If teacher got tickets, then I think it's a completely valid reason to take a day off work!! Hell, I did

OP is being ridiculous.

+1 An exciting opportunity for her kids!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Teachers get PTO and vacation days, too.

If you can't deal with it, then home school.

So teachers get vacation days in addition to the designated "school vacation days"? I'm not trying to sound rude, this is just surprising to me.

Why is that surprising? I'm a teacher. I'm also a parent, and the daughter of an elderly person. Sometimes one of my kids or my mom or my house needs me or deserves me at something that wouldn't qualify as "sick", and I have a few personal days to cover these events. Over the past few years, I've taken personal leave to attend the IEP of my niece because my sister needed moral support, to take the dog to an emergency vet appointment, to go to my son's HS graduation, and to meet with the social worker who manages some of my mother's care. None of those would have been "sick" visits. I'm in MD where Easter Monday is always a day off, so if I won Easter Egg Roll tickets I wouldn't need to use a personal day, but if I wasn't that's the kind of thing I'd use it for.

Do you really think that teachers don't need to do things like these on days that aren't scheduled days off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ha - above posters are probably defensive teachers!

pp who is a lawyer.

Ah! The worst kind of a-hole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God, it's parents like you that made me quit the profession!

+1

Also, why parents and teachers should NOT be friends on FB.

I'm a former teacher now in biglaw because fuck parents man, seriously.

[Anonymous]

And people why teaching is such a horrible job..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God, it's parents like you that made me quit the profession!

+1

[Anonymous]

Op did we scare you off?

Can you come back and tell us which school system at least since you're not answering?

Monday was a teacher workday in fcps.

Are you a troll?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is more of a venting post, but I am so annoyed that my child's teacher took the day off yesterday to bring her kids to the white house egg roll. We haven't even considered the egg roll because it's a school day, right after a week off for spring break. But apparently its okay for the teacher?

GET. OVER. YOURSELF.