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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher changing jobs to go to another school. My choice. Also, financial need.

Call the principal.

Tell them that you love Ms. or Mr. _____ and were wondering if you should start a meal train of take a collection for gift cards if they have been ill.  You don't mean to pry, but they have been out a lot.

The subs are sometimes people who do something else in a school (like a librarian or school counselor) so the trickle down impact is that the other students are not receiving help from the specials teacher either and the other teachers are missing out on breaks, or the kids miss music, art, etc..

My co-workers are spread incredibly thin covering of others and admin is oblivious to the impact of chronic absenteeism, and sometimes they create the issue by offering really low salaries and not rewarding those with more to offer.

A day here and there is fine, but I wish more were done to help new teachers to get better (I am not a new teacher) than to cut bait & try again with another person. There is no union or recourse for those who are treated poorly, and if there are a lot of interviews to attend, there could a problem at your school.  The problem could be mean parents or kids who are allowed to get away with too much-driving teachers away-and if that is the case, try to advocate to the parents to be kinder, but admin may need to know that your child notices when it is worksheet and "read on your own" day.

If teachers are retiring, they are encouraged to use all of their leave, because schools don't want to buy back that time. You are not out of line to feel a little bit short-changed. 
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OP and I appreciate the time you took to write this. These are younger teachers and one of them is definitely being driven out by bad kid behavior and over the top parents, and the other is seemingly a contract non-renewal but that teacher was given a really rough group of kids. All of the kids with neurodivergence and higher needs (to the extent that they exist in a private) were put in that teachers’ section two years in a row. I think that teacher really needed support and didn’t get it, but that’s only from what I heard from families who had them in the past and from my observations.

Subs are sometimes instructional assistants from another grade, sometimes a specialist teacher, and sometimes random people. They aren’t being given lesson plans from what I can tell, but one of the IAs is good about figuring out what the kids have been doing and running with it.[/quote]

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