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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are NO SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS.

This is not about complaining teachers or philosophies or whatever. It’s about the job market. If you look around your office and imagine that for every single person who takes a day or two off for Thanksgiving you need to hire a temporary worker to fill their job, then you understand the situation the school systems are in.[/quote]

[b]How do you think hospitals, doctors offices, and basically any business that deals directly with the public deal with this?[/b] Not everyone can take leave on the same day. Sometimes they come up with rotations or other systems to spread out the highly desired days to take off.[/quote]

Didn't they reduce hours and services?  Our doctor's office started doing telehealth as well.[/quote]

Some do, some don’t. Even when they close on the Friday after Thanksgiving, or Wednesday before, that mostly just moves when people ask for time off (e.g., the whole week off, rather than just the Friday). Regardless, they can’t let everyone take leave whenever they want- there’s always a system in place for determining who gets the day off, and who needs to work.[/quote]

Sure, but there is a system at schools, too, for determining who can get time off.  No one in my school district can ask for personal or vacation days just before a holiday for example, without approval from very higher ups, and that approval is NOT being given.

The question is how are places handling people out sick + staff shortages + no one to cover.   In those cases -- they have to reduce services.  Either they work more slowly and have longer wait times, or they fail to provide services.  In some cases, they just need to close because they cannot safely operate.[/quote]

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