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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen, we are in for a train wreck if they don’t get rid of the required 5 day isolation. We do NOT have any subs. We have major community spread right now. We need to be able to decide when we as teachers feel okay to come in. Having to cover for so many colleagues was a major part of teacher burnout last year.[/quote]

I’m a teacher too and I’m tired of going to work sick whether it be from Covid or something else. I’m done sacrificing my body because the school district can’t get it together. I will not go to work sick. Simple. [/quote]

That’s fine. You can use your sick days however you like. [/quote]

DP. I don’t think you are a MCPS teacher if you think you can use your sick days however you want. Formally, you can stay out for 4 days without a doctor’s note. Informally, if you don’t have Covid, admin will pressure you to come in because there aren’t enough subs. Especially if you want to take off a Friday or Monday. I scheduled a procedure on a Thursday afternoon when we had Monday off so I could have 4 full days to recover without impacting my colleagues. I put the sub request in a month in advance. Submitted the leave slip the same day. My principal waited until after school on that Wed to sign it because it never got picked up. [/quote]

I say this as a (tenured) mcps teacher…it is your leave to take. Principal doesn’t have to sign the slip, you put it in, you put the job in the sub system. You can talk to your team if you’re so inclined. But it is your leave to take. As long as we as teachers let admin think they have to give us permission for things, we will never get anywhere. 
Now, we should still have covid leave but that’s another issue.[/quote]

Another teacher here. Yes! We had a principal for several years who tried to deny people their leave. It wasn’t until she tried to do it with several more confident teachers that she mostly stopped.[/quote]

You’d get more leave if you worked year round and without the constant breaks. Would you prefer that?[/quote]

I’m pretty sure teachers are the two year round schools do not get significantly more leave. I’m not even sure they get 1-2 days more.[/quote] teachers at year round schools still get the sane amount of time off. It’s just spread out differently. [/quote]

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