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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get it, OP.  It sucks.  I am a teacher and the amount of guilt I felt taking maternity leave, the number of emails I responded to, zoom sessions during which I tutored, and papers I graded while on "leave" was shameful (and frankly, probably fraud--no work should be done on short term disability, which is what FCPS "maternity" leave is).  My spouse is also a teacher, so every time baby got sick one of us missed school that first year.

I wish so badly there were highly qualified subs in rotation.  I would sign up for the position in a heart beat to be a high school math sub if I were paid my same salary, and just rotate to whatever high school math class needed coverage for that week/day/quarter.  As a classroom teacher, if this existed I could leave plans like "cover a lesson on graphing radicals using transformations" with a sheet of problems instead of spending 3 hours trying to create fool proof materials that aren't a total waste of time, yet a barely breathing monkey can still implement them.

Or advocate for true maternity leave, so the constant in and out isn't an issue because a full year replacement is hired.  You know why teachers come back after only 6 weeks like I did?  Because we aren't on paid leave unless we are burning vacation days, and we have to save leave to cover inevitable sick days like you are seeing.

Please, advocate the county in that direction.  Don't berate the teacher for taking her earned time off.  Unless she's taking off to go to disney, it's not her fault her baby is sick.  It's the county's fault that they aren't paying enough to attract qualified subs.  It's society's fault for making teaching so unappealing no one wants to do it.[/quote]

OP here. Thank you for responding. I understand how hard it is. I totally understand the problem goes much deeper. Funding for education seems like an afterthought in this current political environment.  I always support candidates that have been endorsed by teachers and I don’t expect perfection from teachers at all. I am fully aware of what a demanding and often thankless job it is. I also know the maternity leave in this country is abhorrent! It’s truly sad that this country would rather cut corporate tax and fund the military as opposed to supporting the future of our children. [/quote]

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