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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm the one that said teachers get a lot of vacation, and I'm absolutely right (and, unlike teachers, I never worked from home). In ten months, you get as much as most people get in a year. Not counting the holidays most people get, this year MCPS teachers get:

Wednesday and Friday of the week of Thanksgiving
Six days at Christmas
Six days for Spring Break
Five additional non-instructional days

That's more than an average American gets in a year, but you get it in three quarters of the year. For working parents, lots of us use all or most of our leave for a 12 month job just keeping up with the days you get off during ten months. For us, it looks like you get plenty of leave without also jetting off for vacation early while our kids are expected to go to class.[/quote]

These aren’t “days of leave.” These are days we aren’t contracted to be at school. There is a difference. We are only paid for a set amount of days each year.

You also write above that you’ve never worked from home. I work from home— maybe 6 hours on Saturday, 5 hours on Sunday, and 2-3 hours every weeknight. 
Teachers work a compressed schedule, with 12 months of work crammed into 10.

But if this sounds preferable to you, then know you can always apply. Join a program for career changers.[/quote]

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