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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So does this work in any other industry?  I work in healthcare and patients showed up today and all doctors and nurses were present.  Their children were home too with no school.   They didn’t ask to bring kids to work or make excuses not to work today.  Stop the coddling of teachers.  If you are a working professional, you need to have plans for childcare. Period![/quote]

Thank you!  I've been saying the same thing about this being industry-specific. [/quote]

You’re forgetting that subs are normally the back up plan for teachers when they have a child care issue. My teacher  parent NEVER had any issues getting a sub even the morning of. This was over their entire career. Also, if you want teachers to be able to afford the  back up child care you need to pay them more. I’ve paid for back up child care. Many, many times. No way teachers can pay that. In fact, if my parent had already used their sick and personal leave for the year (a whole 7 days total), they had to pay for the sub out of their paycheck.[/quote]

I’d argue that is one of the perks of the job for teachers- it may not be as lucrative as other fields, but is more conducive to child care (when children are school-aged).  I agree, if you want that gone, you’d have to pay more to attract and retain people.  The reality of this past Thursday is that it was simply a bad weather call.  I wouldn’t even say it was on the part of the school systems, as much as the weather forecasters.  I also think it’s funny how many have demanded that teachers telework on snow days.  As a teacher’s kid, I’m sure you get it- all of those teachers “off” were probably grading, planning, working from home in some capacity or another.  It is what they do during the school year, evenings and weekends, September- June.  Summer makes up for it.  It’s the way it’s always been.  [/quote]Most of the complaints have been about the Syphax staff not working.  There is zero reason that office staff should have had either of the questionable snow days off this year.  It's not like they're on top of things either, they constantly drop balls from a working covid dashboard to functioning covid testing to staffing subs and summer school to fixing whatever is wrong with APS transportation.  There's plenty to be done.[/quote]

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