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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't teachers have 2 months this summer to drum up a plan for kids home sick?  Arguably, if a kid is sick, why should they do work?  They are sick.  Mark assignments as 100%, give missed math lesson sheets when they return so they can catch up. [/quote]

I'll drum up some plans if they paid me to but they didn't.[/quote]

Lots of government employees work OT unpaid.  Especially ones who have people relying on them for their welfare.  Like children relying on YOU for their education.  Don't be a clock watcher.[/quote]
That’s funny, we aren’t even allowed to move our cars on our prep periods. We can’t walk out the door thirty seconds before the official end of day, even if all the kids are gone. Our jobs have zero flexibility. We don’t get PTO, have to schedule doctor’s appointments on holidays, and are tasked with completing virtual meetings and trainings on site for no reason. Everyone knows that teachers work a ton of unpaid overtime. Everyone wants to watch the clock when it comes to teachers, but god forbid teachers draw boundaries or ask to be respected and paid for your time. [/quote]

At my school, if you want to physically leave the building during our 30 min lunch, you have to fill out a leave slip. That means I can’t go grab a prescription from CVS, make a private phone call in my car, or even take a walk in the fresh air. [/quote]

My school instituted the same policy.  The excuse was that they needed to be able to find us in an emergency - no idea what the emergency would be, as in my ten years in FCPS there never was any emergency where anyone needed to find anyone (except the principal, and we could always find him easily because he never left his office, ever).  It was just one more way to chip away at teacher autonomy and treat us like children.  It's just one of many things that caused me to quit and never go back.[/quote]

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