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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve heard teachers complaining about the opposite issue - they makes themselves available for PTC but the parents schedule 4 day mini vacations and then ask for the teachers to accommodate them on a different day. Which is super shitty in my opinion. [/quote]

Former teacher here. I agree with this. But since I’ve been a parent, I haven’t gone on vacations during teacher workdays. I have noticed a trend. Most teachers now don’t schedule conferences on the actual teacher workdays and tend to do them before or after school. I find this more inconvenient for parents. Before school is tough - who is watching my kids that early in the am and getting them ready to go to school if I’m at the conference? After school again doesn’t work. Who is watching my kids or getting them from the bus stop? I am a SAHM with no outside childcare help. The teacher workdays are much easier for me to utilize for conferences. I can leave my kids at home because their Dad works from home. But early mornings on a school day with him working? Won’t work.

I notice the teachers who get all their conferences done before the workdays aren’t at school on those workdays. Classroom is dark and their doors are locked. They are taking the day off without using leave of course. [/quote]

[b]How do you know they are taking the day off without using leave? That’s a pretty mean assumption.[/b] 
I see in your post that you are mostly concerned about what’s most convenient for you. Sure. Who isn’t? Well, the teacher has to accommodate more families than just you. I’ve held conferences on the PT conference days as well as before school and after school. I bend over backwards to accommodate families, yours AND all the others. Perhaps before school is tough for you, but there are plenty of families who prefer that. [/quote]

Because that’s how it works. I used to teach for FCPS and you don’t have to take leave on a teacher workday. Principal usually gives “flex” time. Meaning you can “work from home.” Yeah right. The reality is teachers go out to lunch and take off the rest of the day. [/quote]

Wow, that’s weird that you don’t work there any more.  Sounds like a great gig.[/quote]

+1. I’ve never had a principal who would let me get away with that.[/quote]

Right?!  Ok, troll…[/quote]

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