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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was a constant frustration throughout the DCPS years.  Teachers maxed out their benefits and planned to take leave during the school year.  I understand that its a hard job, but when you have the summer off and your wife gives birth in July, I find it pretty frustrating that you plan to take paternity leave February-May during the school year . its very disruptive to the class and shows a clear lack of empathy for their students.  This is what makes parents want to cut benefits of teachers and hate the union.  [/quote]

Wow. I don’t know where to begin with your post.

If teachers are so integral to the students’ experience, you’d think we’d respect them more.

You have NO IDEA what that family was enduring, and you also have absolutely no right to this information. Teachers are allowed to take care of their own needs and to put their families first… you know, kind of like you get to.

And I am so sick of hearing “summers off.” They are UNPAID summers and many of us have to scramble for extra work. Many of us also attend training (on our own dime) and prep for the next school year (unpaid). And if it’s such a good deal, why aren’t you teaching? For all the DCUM posters who go on and on and on about how great of a benefit it is, I can’t figure out why we have a teacher shortage. Why aren’t you joining us?

I’m not joining you because I made different career decisions a long time ago and it did not involve a school year schedule where young vulnerable students are counting on me to be in the classroom for a 9 month stretch.. Each fall a teacher signs a contract committing to be in the classroom for a 9 month school year.  If you can’t make that commitment do something else that year.  I’d be open to providing a lump sum to a dad cover 4 weeks of child care but I think its abuse of the benefit to take multiple months of paternity leave in the middle of the school year many months after the birth. Let’s all remember that mothers get maternity leave for physical reasons.  Paternity leave is there if you need to bond with your child or help the mother with an infant - it’s not to offset the cost of daycare (which is going to go on for years!).

Perhaps you don’t want to be treated with the same disrespect you dish out.[/quote][/quote]

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