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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. Just when I thought DCUM couldnt stoop any lower. Teachers get sick leave. It works out to roughly one day and change per month that you accrue. When I took maternity leave, I had to use 14 days of my leave or go unpaid before my short term disability kicked in. The short term disability doesnt pay 100%, so many teachers use additional days they have built up to get full pay. That is assuming they have been in the county for a long time and have been saving leave.

When I went back to teaching after maternity leave, my baby was in daycare and was often sick. I am not the breadwinner in my family, so I stayed home every time with the sick baby. My husbands job is high stress and what allows us to live in Fairfax County. Yes, I was super stressed out about my students missing out on quality instruction. It was a really crappy 2-3 years at work while I tried to balance it.

Read the room. There is a teacher and sub shortage. It sucks, but calling out a new working mom and complaining to the principal is a pretty dick move.[/quote]

Well OP seems to thinks that the teacher should have either predicted her absences and quit her job for the year or have backup childcare providers on call for when her children can't be in daycare (which may be due to Covid exposure). Now that I think about it, why doesn't the teacher get a live-in nanny and housekeeper?!

I agree that complaining to the principal is a dick move but this seems to be the prevailing ethos on DCUM. No wonder we have a teacher shortage. [/quote]

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