Reply to Constant teacher absences

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Constant teacher absences "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if her baby is in the NICU and she gets health insurance through her job, you want her to quit her job, lose her health insurance, and ensure that your kid has only subs for the rest of the year?

Yeah, okay.[/quote]

I'm not the OP. If that is the case, then all the more reason that school administration should have had a plan in place for a regular substitute and additional support for the class to avoid disadvantaging the students while the teacher goes through this difficult time.[/quote]

The issue, again, is that there aren't any subs for the admins to acquire.  Over the past few years, we've had one teacher go through many rounds with cancer.  She's missed between 6-20 weeks every school year of the past 3.  From what we've heard, she's going to be out again probably starting in March until the end of the year. [b] There is no one willing to take on a leave for that length of time so her class will probably go through sub after sub. [/b] It's a terrible situation all around.  Part of me thinks she should just retire (she's early 50's) and at the same time I know she needs the health insurance.  [/quote]

Part of this is that FCPS is incredibly cheap when it comes to hiring long term subs. They're not going to pay more than the long term retiree rate to anyone, which is incredibly insulting to a teacher who put in 30 years or a licensed teacher who moved here from out of state with 10 years' experience. Offer up a half-year or even a full year contract to these people with the salary that matches or at least comes close to what they were making before they left full time teaching and there would be no problem. Somehow this kind of situation ends up at the very bottom of the spending priority list. It's stupid and very preventible. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics