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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] [quote]Yep, teacher contracts are for 200 days. Teacher work days are 194. 6 days covers the extra stuff.[/quote]
	
The "extra stuff"? Where do those days fall on the contract? And is your calculation taking into account the 24 hours of PD (3 full days' worth) that teachers are supposed to do on their own time and document by the end of the school year?

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Yes it does. There were 175 days of school this year and with all the other trainings, PD, grade prep days, etc end up at 194. The other 6 days are buffer to recognize that teachers of course work beyond school day hours. Next year academic year increase by an entire week because of the newly added religious holidays and desire to return to the normal 180 school day std. teachers are not paid for these new religious holidays and on top of that we lose a week of summer break when we could be earning money from a summer job. [/quote]

It's ridiculous that Syphax is paid for all of winter break, spring break and ALL of the new religious holidays. I support adding those as days off school, but there is no industry that PAYS people for ALL major religious holidays. And Christmas is only paid for more white collar workers because it's a federal holiday.

Also what happens if we need some 12-month employees to work at certain times that they are technically off? Does APS now have to pay for them to work those days they are paying for them to have off? Do they get credited leave they can use at another time? I got an email that the APS aquatics office is closed this week even though APS pools remain open. That's how dumb this policy is. [/quote]

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