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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Subs are paid minimum wage. The aides don't make much more.

Until you treat these positions as professional ones, you are not going to attract more serious people to the work. [/quote]

I don’t know - the aides at our DCPS are fantastic. Several are working on their teaching degrees and at least one came back to the school to teach after finishing college. That’s why I am somewhat understanding about the hard time they had getting rid of the bad one. [/quote]

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