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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Jewish holidays should be the first to go. If it means that much then pull your kids.
Next should be winter break - [b]only need to have Christmas and New Years off.[/b] If you want more days pull your kids
Might as well do away with President's Day as well, soon enough that day will go the way of Columbus Day.[/quote]

Then you need to change state law, which requires schools to close between December 24 and January 1.[/quote]

Love how the teachers union lobbied for that.

And here we are. Teachers union paid federal and national and professional holidays versus religious holidays.[/quote]

Are you an idiot? Those days off are not paid. Teachers get paid based on the number of "working days," whether nonworking days intercede.[/quote]

Now I'm confused. [b]what days off during non-summer months are not paid for teachers?  I assumed all days off during the school year are paid[i]. I also agree with the various PP's this has deliberately gotten political and parties are trying to make trouble with religious groups to fight Hogan over the school calendar puzzle.  Yet professional days and Columbus/Martin Luther/President's days are not on the table.   [/quote]

You assumed incorrectly. Teachers are paid for 195 work days. This year there are 182 instructional days which is why preservice week was extended to 8 days. There are two professional days this year--January 26th and June 13th. Then for the additional 3 days of payment teachers have to document 24 hours of time spent working outside the duty day, but the documented work has to be related to the School Improvement Plan. One of those 3 days can be used for planning within the school day (either two half days or one full day)  but teachers must get a sub and write sub plans.  That brings them to 195 paid days. No holidays or other days off are paid.

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I love how on this board when someone refutes commonly held assumptions with actual facts that there are crickets. I guess it just doesn't fit peoples' strongly held assumptions that teachers have many paid days off and that they're just greedy/lazy and sit around eating catered lunches during professional days. Interesting. [/quote]

Do you need a sticker for all your lengthy posts about your teacher union terms?  
I expect any employee anywhere to get their job done and get it done well, and if it needs after hours or weekend work, so be it.  No way does that imply I am taking a vacation day during the school week because a teacher refuses to "plan" outside of his/her teacher union edict hours and dates.[/quote]

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