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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t buy that teachers don’t get paid enough for back up childcare.  The average teacher salary in Arlington is 80-100k.  There is no reason they can not afford childcare care.  All other employees from mall workers, grocery workers, sanitation workers, waitresses  come to work.  They make less than what the teachers make.  This is now more about a woke, progressive culture taking over N Virginia to such an extreme level that people are looking out for themselves instead of the greater good and not taking personal responsibility.  These people have no sense of professionalism anymore or duty.  Dr Duran is a prime example of someone from that woke  culture who will put employees first before students because he believes whole heartedly that this school system exists to employ teachers rather than a system made to educate the city’s children.  [/quote]

Well that's not very much money for Arlington and back up child care is available in this area but the services are set up so an employer must purchase slots for their employees to use and then the employees can use the service for a daily fee.  Of course there are other options and yes [b]teachers just like other working professionals need to be prepared for instances when they need back up care.[/b] For example, many at home daycares don't close on snow days because they don't need to since the provider doesn't need to leave home to work. [/quote]

1) The sub shortage is due to COVID (increased need for subs and decreased willingness of people to sub).  This too shall pass.
2) If in the future the sub system is no longer to be relied upon, then I agree.  HOWEVER lets not pretend it isn't a change and that teachers are slackers because their employers had a back up system in place and then that back up system failed.  
3) I agree it would have made sense for Syphax to telework, maybe even to call it an additional teacher planning day.  But no way is it reasonable to suddenly demand teachers have back up child care when the sub system starts to fail.

When my parent was a teacher they had only 7 days of leave during the school year (sick and personal combined).  If my parent needed to miss an additional day for any reason they simply didn't get paid.  How many on DCUM have that little leave?

And while I'm thinking about this, why should the job and NOT caring for a sick family member be the priority? Isn't that thinking exactly what is wrong with America's work culture?  [/quote]

What does a sub shortage have to do with back up child care?  If a teacher is at a school that is going to open, but their child's school is not, the teacher would need to have back up child care available for their child.
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The sub system is the backup child care system, especially on short notice.[/quote]

But the sub system is set up to have a someone cover for them at work on short notice. Backup childcare would mean having an alternative childcare arrangement so that the employee can go to work. Many people have to figure out their own backup childcare in the scenario that a colleague cannot cover for them at work. Just wanted to point out the difference. I’m sure with short staffing lots of people are having a hard time finding someone to cover them and therefore have to find a school closure camp, family member, neighbor, spouse, etc. to watch their kid(s) while they work. This past Thursday “snow” day I spent $300 (essentially my salary for the day) for 2 kids to attend a snow day camp because I couldn’t take off again after all the leave I used for the previous snow week not to mention the past school year when trying to deal with virtual school. Being a working parent really freaking sucks right now for all of us, not just teachers. But parents don’t seem to be getting the same consideration from APS as teachers. The solution to more snow is virtual school, which again, sucks for working parents with young kids. They need to be finding ways to build back in-person learning and not relying on more free labor from parents to meet the obligation of educational hours for the school year. [/quote]

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