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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers deserve a damn snow day. F off![/quote]

I don't have a problem with teachers not working when classes are cancelled.  BUT, this attitude bugs me.  And it reveals that it actually IS seen as a free paid day off.  As though it is some sort of bonus for them.  It isn't.  Snow days are an unfortunate necessity.[/quote]

Unless it's one of the couple built in snow days, it's not a paid day off.  It's traded for another day.  It's like when you take a day of annual leave to watch your kids on a snow day.  That's not a "paid day off" it's leave.

Unless you never post pictures or comments  or tell people about your Christmas celebration, because you know that there are people working in ERs and first responders who don't get days off then, and never post about the vacations you take, because there are people working those days, and never post about the fact that you got to go to your kid's Halloween party at school, when teachers are working, then you're a hypocrite for thinking that teachers shouldn't enjoy the perks of their job.  [/quote]

PP here and that is a fair point.  You are right that they should enjoy the break from teaching.

To be more precise, is the original post I responded to about teachers "deserving" it.  That to me reads as giving teachers a day of is a *reason* to call a snow day, or that the snow day was "earned" by the difficult circumstances they are working in.  The analogy there is hospital management deciding to give all ER doctors a spontaneous paid day off as a "bonus" for their work.  And that, to me, is seriously flawed thinking.[/quote]

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