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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]
It's because you are so full of it that nobody wants to get near your posts.  Anyone can go out and read your contract.  [url]http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/associationrelations/refresh2014/MCEA%20Contract%20FY15-FY17%20.pdf[/url].  Here's one highlight:

[img]https://image.ibb.co/jcsyab/Holiday_leave_mcps.jpg[/img]
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Yup.  Read the contract.  Those "holidays" are unpaid days off for teachers. [/quote]
I read it 3 years ago and just read it again.  I want to give you the benefit of the doubt and hope you are only talking about substitute teachers.  My wife is a teacher in MCPS who chooses not to get paid year round (just paychecks during the school year) and I can tell you for a fact that her paycheck over Thanksgiving week is not less than it is any other week.  This is what it means to get paid for holidays.  MCPS teachers (unit members) are salaried employees who get the same pay check each pay period whether that period includes a holiday, 1/2 day, professional day, personal day, sick day or not.  If you are trying to use Union-Style semantics about the definition of the word "work", then I guess you got me.  I am one of the 90% who work in the real (non-union) world.[/quote]

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