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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve started to take my sick days that I’ve been collecting and not using for years. Guess what happened? I get grief from admin (I’m a teacher), parents, and sometimes other teachers. I’m taking a sick day today to go to a doctor’s appointment and my sub has all of my plans. I’ve already gotten two phone calls from school and a few texts from admin about things that were due last week that I turned in. It’s like they can’t stand that I’m actually taking a day for myself. Same thing happens when colleagues take off. If I don’t use these days, I’ll only be reimbursed for 1/4 of them in retirement but God forbid if you do use them. So messed up. [/quote]

As a parent this upsets me to hear. I want my kids’ teachers to be healthy and have some balance in their lives. It is a difficult profession and increasingly people are turning away from working in education.

Also, my elementary age kids (including one with SNs) have “survived” having a teacher go out on parental or other extended health leave.

We should do a better job of making sure we have a robust backup of qualified subs so it’s not a crisis for the school administration any time a teacher needs a day off. But I pay my college sitters more than most subs make (I looked into it earlier this year when I was worried about getting RIF’d). [/quote]

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