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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sounds like a nightmare for schools.  How are they going to cover teachers regularly being out for half a day?  My kid has an IEP and the teachers are legally required to be present for the meetings, and it's hard enough to coordinate coverage for that.  [/quote]
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Ma’am. They are required to give input. 
Schools had better start offering work settings that mirror the work from home perks. [/quote]

:roll: Teaching is by its nature not a flexible job. And teachers are usually free by 3:15 and all summer … not to mention three weeks of break during the school year. [/quote]

Teaching is a very flexible job. Summer off, tons of school holidays, nice winter and spring breaks. They finish the day early enough to run errands and do appointments after work. Plus the planning periods during the work day to catch up. Lots of flexibility and perks.[/quote]

There are a lot of perks to teaching (and tons if hard work) but it is not flexible.  [b]It is one of the few jobs where you cannot take off without doing a ton of work to prepare for that absence[/b] (or deal with the consequences of your kids not learning and bring a mess for the sub).  The summer off is great but I feel lucky my husband has a more flexible programming job.  He winds up taking care of covering all sick kid days and random couple of hours off to meet plumber or similar things.  It is really stressful to be absent as a teacher.  We do have the school breaks but no flexibility in taking off.  So yes- teachers get more days off than most but the job is not flexible.  [/quote]

What are you talking about?  This is true of every white-collar job.[/quote]

Really?  When my programmer friends take off a day sick they are not expected to provide detailed plans for another unrelated person to continue writing their code.  They just pick up where they left off when they returned.  When my friends in HR take off they don’t need to leave detailed plans for a random person to read applications for them for the day.  When my dentist is out sick my appointment is rescheduled.  When I held a non-teaching admin job at my school I could take off and pick everything up the day I returned.  I’m not saying there is no pressure not to take off in other jobs.  I’m not saying you might not face scrutiny if you take off too much.  I’m not saying it might not be hard to take off if you have a deadline looming.  But what job do you need to put together detailed plans for someone you’ve never met to do your actual job for the day if you need to take a day off?  And yes I know many teachers leave nothing or super crappy plans for the sub but let’s assume we are talking about a teacher trying to set up a decent day for their students.[/quote]

So it sounds like teaching is a job that is less flexible (from 8-3) than some other jobs. So you need to accept that, or find flexibility in other ways compatible with the job duties. [/quote]

I think the point made at the beginning of this thread, is that its not the teachers that need to accept this or continue to be flexible. Teachers are making it pretty clear this is unsustainable from a QoL and all of the "My job is also hard" or "but you have summers off" or "retirement benefits" aren't going to sway them, regardless of your personal opinion.[/quote]

They should take another job. Just to show I'm not a jerk, I'll support an 18-month hire-back guarantee. Clocks starts when the decide to take me up on it. They're first lesson will be "jesus christ, it's hard to find a job nowadays." [/quote]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH my best friend with almost 20 years of teaching experience who runs a specialized program for students in a highly desired school system is leaving. And will be making 15k more with WAH capability.

3 main reasons she is leaving
1. pay
2. lack of time with her own children and flexibility
3. parents who decide that HS means they no longer have to parent their children [/quote]

Your best friend is an idiot. $15K more per year doesn't cover the delta in her retirement and health insurance benefits. Not even the retirement benefits alone. [/quote]

Really, really unlikely that she ends up with more time with her own children.  I think the teachers here have a distorted view of the 'joys' of WFH.[/quote]

I dunno where they could get that from.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1120562.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1119248.page[/quote]

Yep, distorted.  That's not everyone, and those situations won't last.[/quote]

Yep, people having dead time at work is a new phenomenom....[/quote]

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