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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here.
You can transfer up to 90 days of sick leave into ACPS if you are coming directly from another VA district.

http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Shared/school%20board%20policies/35-5-03-sick-leave-pip.pdf[/quote]

I'm a little appalled that you people get to accrue sick leave like that. And I'm a supporter of public school teachers. That's just not right.[/quote]

Oh boy. Here we go.
"You people"?

What's wrong with building up leave? It's not like a teacher can take off for a month and go on vacation with it. It has to be used as sick leave and after a few days in a row needs to be approved. [b]When a teacher retires from FCPS, he/she doesn't get paid for unused leave[/b].[/quote]

This was my chief problem with it. Thank you for clarifying that.[/quote]

Actually, I think you can use sick leave toward retirement credit.  So maybe you don't get paid, but if you have a few months of leave accrued, that can be used toward your years worked. [/quote]

Ok, THAT I have a problem with.[/quote]

Why?  The reason the teacher has built up sick leave it's because the teacher hasn't been taking leave over the years, but has been showing up to work.  So he/she gets to retire three months early after showing up to work consistently over many, many years.   Seriously, people can be so petty about stuff![/quote]

I have a problem with it because sick leave should be used for when you're sick, not accrued in "cashed in" as a reward for not being sick. That actually creates an incentive to come to work sick, which is the opposite intent of having a sick leave policy in the first place. I think this is a holdover of union-negotiated benefits. I'm certainly not anti-union by any stretch, but I find the accumulation of sick leave to be a really bad policy and an abuse of taxpayer dollars. Use it when you're sick, not as a reward for trudging through.[/quote]

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