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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it is a short term medical leave who do they hire?[/quote]

How short term?

Anything less than 4 days doesn't require approval. I've arranged my own 4-day sub and had surgeries this way.

5 or more days requires approval and generally leave is granted in short chunks requiring repeat doctor's visits and re certification that you can't return to full duty. The exception is maternity leave, which is granted as the full 6 weeks (paid if you have sick days saved, unpaid if you don't).

FMLA's 12 weeks is implemented by MCPS as 60 duty days. Non-school days such as Winter and Spring Break don't count.

I have used 59-60 days 3 times. Twice I knew I'd be out for 30-60 days and pre-arranged a long term sub that was approved by my principal and dept head. The third time was acute. I kept thinking I'd return in a week. ERSC kept refusing to clear me for duty because I had medical restrictions (had to sit, needed a bathroom break every hour --imagine the nerve of a teacher wanting to guarantee bathroom use). However, they wouldn't give more than a week off at a time so I had continuously book new subs. My poor students never had the same sub for longer than 5 days. Parents were furious. The same thing happened with a fellow teacher who broke her leg badly later that same year. ERSC handles the issue of less than full duty clearance badly IMO.

If the impaired Social Studies teacher is only gone say 2 weeks, that's considered a short term sub job.

If she is gone longer but less than 60 days, it will be a long-term sub most likely.

If she is gone more than 60 days, her principal can release her position and hire someone new. The impaired teacher then becomes an involuntary transfer to another MCPS school.[/quote]

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