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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you taken more sick leave than you’re entitled to? If not, how can it be a thing that “taking too much sick leave” is a factor in your review? It seems insane to me that you work at a school, which must be aware of the fact that we’re all living through historic levels of sickness in elementary age kids and younger, and that they don’t recognize that you will need to be off when your kids are sick. [/quote]

I get 11 days a year off sick leave and I do NOT have flex time at all. My hours are rigid.  They have said that they understand that kids get sick but then say that it's hard to keep on top of your work when your kids are sick.  You basically have to use your sick leave and work from home during the day or work extra in the evenings to catch up.  They also are quite rigid with deadlines so if I can't meet with a parent because of the parent's schedule until 3:30 pm on a wednesday and my work hours are 8:30-4:30 and my schedule is full thursday from 8:30-4:00pm, I am expected to work from home that evening to write it and submit it, despite that going far over my work hours. Meanwhile, there are many colleagues submitting their reports on the same day for no reason at all.

So yeah, not much flexibility!!

I found a back-up sitter this morning after I offered to pay double and have my child wear a mask.  I do not live in the dc area (I am from there though).  I pay $50 a day for back-up care in someone's home and will pay $100 for sick days. I am working on locating a 2nd back-up too.

I do not have nanny options where I live and finding someone willing to watch my kid sick is very hard! Many parents have looked for something like this.  I'm lucky I found anyone at all.

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