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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]

Your husband was the breadwinner and you were able to stay in FFX county because of him. You think it’s ok to have 2-3 crappy years at work TEACHING STUDENTS? This is an AAP class so the students are at least ahead of their peers and generally more focused on learning. But do you not realize in those 2-3 crappy years, some students must have missed out on quality instruction or failed to form a solid base during their elementary school years? How entitled are you? Why did you not take a leave of absence for those 2-3 years so you can focus on your family and some other teacher can come in to teach those students? Surely you weren’t the breadwinner and surely there wasn’t a teacher shortage during those 2-3 years. Gosh the entitlement some of you have!  This isn’t some admin job where you have a crappy couple of years and it’s no big deal! It IS A BIG DEAL.

I am extremely appreciative of all teachers and make it a point to express that to them throughout the year! I have the utmost respect for this profession and always vote for candidates that are big proponents  of increased funding in education. I have an issue with ONE teacher who constantly seems frazzled and the reason I am venting is because it’s affecting the students and they are all acting out and nobody is learning anything. But the teacher brigade gets so upset as if I threw all the teachers under the bus! Unbelievable!

Private school seems very enticing indeed. My husband and I have decided if this goes on, our kids are definitely going to private in high school! I am sure there will be no teacher brigade there getting upset if we have the audacity to question the quality of education our kids are getting. [/quote]

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