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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry - this has hurt my DD in MS big time.  Both in 6th grade and 8th grade

Her Math teacher did not take a long leave of absence. What she did instead is take leave from day to day  and made an appearance every so often just for a day. so this allowed her not to go on long term leave. This went on for months after months after months. So the subs my DD got were on a daily basis...uninterested middle aged men with starbucks coffee cups and Sudoku books in hand.

Eventually - she went for long term leave and a very substandard long term sub was found.

The same teacher pulled the same stunt after 2 years again.

And in the summer she applied and got transferred to another MCPS MS.  Where I am sure she is doing the same thing.

Maybe she has a child or spouse who is severely ill at home...maybe something bad is in her life.  I have sympathy for whatever her situation may be in life...I just thought that this was a very horrible thing to do to her students.  Anyways,  Karma will come and bite her someday.

So - my answer to any situation where there is long term sub ...or prolonged use of short term sub is occurring is to transfer the child.

3 subject areas to be particularly vary about is Math, Science and Foreign Language.
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[b][u]Which one is it?  You have sympathy or you think it was a horrible thing to do?
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I had a school year where my child was really sick -- like specialists, feeding tube, multiple hospitalizations sick.  Despite a special needs childcare for medically fragile kids, there were times when I was out and my kids had subs.   To make matters worse, I had many of the same kids who had had a sub the year before when I was on maternity leave.  I felt awful about it, but I'm really not sure what you think I could have done differently.

I also think that the notion that a teacher who is missing work, because they have cancer, or a sick child, or whatever, will have karma bite them in the future.  It's not like those things aren't happening right now.[/quote]

I have sympathy[b] if [/b]something bad is happening in the teacher's life...I think [b]it was horrible that she did not go on long term leave from the get go[/b]...instead she pulled the daily leave stunt for months...coming to school for 1 day after taking short leave for many days....

This prevented the school from hiring long term sub for the students...we are talking 6 months of no instruction in 6th grade math and 8th grade Honors Geometry...

So sympathy if something was happening on the home front ....and feeling horrible that she did not take long term leave and left kids dangling for 6 months...

Present day situations  are based on the deeds of the past...this is what Karma(deeds, work) means based on Hindu philosophy...
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