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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please keep up. Show me what budget impact taking these weeks away from staff will do. How much more money to the bottom line will it add?

Answer: It will not add to the bottom line of more money to give teachers. It’s an intangible cost. And it keeps people who do the real work at Syphax.

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It's not a couple of days, but weeks of vacation.  That does have a huge cost.  Stuff doesn't get done.  Teacher vacancies don't get filled.  Substitutes don't get hired.  Teacher questions to HR don't get answered promptly.  Test scores are delayed being sent to parents.  Bus routes aren't fixed.  School capacity calculations and redistricting proposals aren't thought out or verified.  Trainings for teachers are half assed.  Curriculum decisions aren't fully vetted.  And on and on.  Syphax had huge issues with quality and responsiveness before giving themselves a bunch more vacation.[/quote]

Ok but these points are about efficiency and responsiveness of the employees. That's different from budget, which is what this post is about. Is there an actual cost in dollars or not? [/quote]
Of course it matters to budget.  With less vacation the work could get done with fewer people.

It also matters because poor Syphax work product is getting pushed out to schools and parents, which eats up teacher and administrative time and leads to requests for more school level staffing.  [/quote]

Ok, I will bite. What work is not getting done? And how do you know this is because of vacation time and not[b] just due to incompetence/laziness? [/quote][/b]

“Just”  HA![/quote]
I think when Ann Irby retired everything in HR went into chaos, not working on breaks is probably not helping but I don't think it's the cause of that dysfunction.[/quote]

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