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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people should stop using “per year” to describe leave taken within ten months not including the 39 vacation days already included.[/quote]

You're right, teachers should definitely schedule their illnesses to happen during summer and winter break. It's so inconvenient to get the flu in January.[/quote]

If you really believe these absences are based on illnesses, why do sub rates surge right before winter and spring breaks? This year probably before Memorial day but too soon to say.

Teachers want cheap flights and midyear pricing on vacations just like everyone else, please stop pretending they’re only out for illness and tragedy— you’re embarrassing yourself.[/quote]

NP but given how many people pull their kids early for breaks or return late, if the teachers have the leave why shouldn’t they take it and do the same?[/quote]

I have no objection to them doing it, I just think we should pretend that isn’t what’s happening while we create fantasies about the death of parents and children.

Principals who allow this, though, should definitely not send emails, reminding parents about “the gift of attendance”. Terrible look.[/quote]

You’ve been on here before complaining about this, haven’t you?

It would be nice if you could give us a bit of respect. Many (most?) teachers are hesitant to take leave because it’s so much extra work. I’ve never, in 24 years, taken off for a vacation. I travel at the most expensive times of the year because that’s when I don’t have to make sub plans or feel guilty about leaving my class with a sub. And guess what? Many teacher absences are for tragic reasons (bereavement, cancer) because we are humans and bad things occasionally happen to humans. To belittle that is rude.

Also… where’s your data about these winter/spring surges? [/quote]

If you go on the sub website, you will find bonus payments for those days, which reflects high demand days.

It is not disrespectful to tell the truth: days in which substitute levels are high enough that the county can plan for surge payments are not about tragedies or illness. Those are planned absences. Do not disrespect the public by pretending otherwise.[/quote]

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