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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are NO SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS.

This is not about complaining teachers or philosophies or whatever. It’s about the job market. If you look around your office and imagine that for every single person who takes a day or two off for Thanksgiving you need to hire a temporary worker to fill their job, then you understand the situation the school systems are in.[/quote]

How do you think hospitals, doctors offices, and basically any business that deals directly with the public deal with this? Not everyone can take leave on the same day. Sometimes they come up with rotations or other systems to spread out the highly desired days to take off.[/quote]

DP. My dentist's office and neurologist are closed the week of Thanksgiving and the two weeks of Winter Break, except for emergency appointments, for this very reason. Same with a pediatric specialist one of my children sees. They cannot staff at regular capacity during those weeks. I have no idea if they bonus the people who do work if there's an emergency, but I bet there's some kind of incentive pay. Most local school systems pay subs terribly and do not bonus them for the in demand days. I understand Loudoun recently adopted a measure to do this but it's probably too little too late for a lot of districts.[/quote]

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