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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard they have approximately 2 weeks off during school year officially, is that true? My DD complained about substitute teacher and the room teacher was off for vacation.[/quote]
Sick days rollover, so it is possible for a teacher to have more than 2 weeks.
Sick leave is also used for maternity leave. So you can only imagine how much one must have accumulated.[/quote]

Many schools don't let you roll over your sick leave.  When I adopted my child, I got 7.5 days of paid leave, because the school I was at allowed 8 sick days a year with no roll over, and I had taken a half day to get homestudy requirements done.  The same school offered 6 weeks at partial pay under short term disability, but only if you gave birth.

I should note that I had been at that school for 4 years, and had never taken a sick day except for that one half day.

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Please tell us which school system you are in. I've worked in several here in NoVa, and I've never seen "Use or lose" sick leave. (Personal, yes, but not sick.) Why would a system want to encourage teachers to use up days just because they can? They'd much rather allow the teachers to accumulate them just in case of long-term illness. And many teachers do just that.[/quote]

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