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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't the training be done during the religious holidays? No one celebrates ALL the holidays. Training/pd should be done on those days of your choosing. APS does not care about working families despite all their equity talk. The calendar proves it. [/quote]

Because that would be working on a school holiday. Like working on Thanksgiving or MLK Jr day. Not everyone celebrates Presidents day, either.
I think they should have put them the Mon and Tue of Thanksgiving break week. Less disruptive to the routine of going to school. But I'm sure some teachers would complain that students and families get a week off for Thanksgiving travel but they can't do the same.  [/quote]

There are plenty of days where the kids don't have schools but teachers do. There is no job in America, including Arlington County, where all employees get all religious holidays off. It is completely reasonable to expect staff to complete professional training on religious holidays that they do not observe. [/quote]

Because APS teachers work to a contracted number of days. They can’t just add work days to a contract and they cannot require professional development training outside of contract hours/days. The current teacher work days are already spoken for other purposes so they need to find a way to include these required trainings during teacher contracted time.
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No they are not. Teachers are contracted for 200 work days. School days are supposed to be 180. This change takes us to 178 or 177. Cut out other nonmandatory training and start treating school like it’s essential. I’m with APE on this one. [/quote]

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