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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doens't matter what kind of school, employees have rights. [/quote]

OP here: Thanks for the feedback. I am very empathetic and understand that one never has full information about what is happening in someone's personal life. Certainly, accommodations should be made, and especially if the employee has a track-record of exceptional performance. However, to the above poster, if I were chronically absent and people who relied on me were affected by my chronic absence, then my employer would act accordingly, and I don't think this situation is any different. I know DCPS has a process, but I wonder if there's any way we can help speed up or support that process. Or, at a minimum help influence the quality (and perhaps stability in terms of having the same person) of the sub in the classroom.

HR issues can be just as thorny in a private educational environment, so I don't buy that panacea for this (or most) challenges that exist in the public education system. [/quote]

the point is that public school is a public system - and no, you cannot “speed along” getting a teacher removed at a public school, nor should you expect to have that kind of power. By comparison in a daycare there would be a state-mandates ratio in the classroom and it would be much easier and much faster to fire a nonperformer and replace them, and the system is designed to be responsive to the paying customers (parents). [/quote]

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