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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn’t MCPS have some kind of policy about teachers taking planned leave right  before a break? Multiple of my kid’s teachers at Pyle were already gone on vacation yesterday or have announced they will be gone Monday and Tuesday.

I get having easy/review lessons or even playing movies, but to be already gone on vacation seems unprofessional.[/quote]

Are you just a stay at home mommy? Stay in your lane. [/quote]

Jealous that you have to work?  Stay in your lane.

No reason why a teacher cannot travel at Christmas, but it [b]does seem a bit absurd to take an entire week off given there is a longer holiday.[/b]  We have several teachers out frequently and it ends up being they don't get through the curriculum.[/quote]

+1 to the bolded. What makes it absurd is how much time teachers already get off. Even if you don't count the summer, the breaks during the year are about as much time as most people get off in a 12 month job. That's fine, but it feels like a very minimal expectation to say you need to be there on the days students are, unless you're sick. If my office were about to close for two weeks, I wouldn't be allowed to take the two days before that off. My boss and clients would object.[/quote]

My family and my health will ALWAYS come first. I know we like to martyr our teachers because they should care more about their students than their own families, but many of us increasingly are putting ourselves first. And that’s a good thing because it’ll keep us from spectacularly burning out like so many of our colleagues before us.

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Going to work on your scheduled days doesn't make you a martyr. You get two weeks off for Christmas which is more than most of us. It won't hurt your family or your health to go to work.[/quote]

10 month teachers don’t get annual leave. We get winter break and spring break instead. Whomever said teachers get a lot of leave probably works from home with a flexible schedule and doesn’t even have to use the leave that they’re allotted. Eye roll.

Before someone mentions summer “break” that is unpaid leave!! We have to put money aside to use during the summer. We don’t get year round pay in MCPS (other counties do).[/quote]

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