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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you ever think about the teachers who don’t visit the doctor because they want to be present everyday?

Do they die earlier because of lack of medical care?

Would it matter to OP if it meant her kid had more consistency?[/quote]

I’m not OP but do you get the impression doctors only work 185 days per year?[/quote]

DP. My doctor works 3 days a week and has canceled two of my appointments this year last minute, making it ridiculously hard to reschedule since I’m limited to the last appointment of the day due to my teaching schedule.

The work flexibility she enjoys makes my life harder and keeps me from medical care.

But I’m not on here screaming about how “all doctors” create convenient schedules for themselves at the expense of their patients. You know… kind of like a poster here is screaming that teachers are enjoying vacations, etc., instead of using leave for more serious purposes. [/quote]

I mean a poster is literally suggesting that OP wants teachers to die for lack of medical care, as though even if they taught all 195 days of their contract, there would not be plenty of days for medical care. Seems a little hysterical.[/quote]

No, the PP “literally” didn’t say that. Don’t be ridiculous.

But it is true that it’s difficult for teachers to schedule medical appointments without missing class. Sorry, it just is. “No, that won’t work. What about next month? Anything after 4:30 is great. The month after that?”

Guess when doctors’ offices are open? On school days. And those holidays you love to point out? If the office is open, that is 100% the day I try to get. But I usually can’t because they are closed or booked solid.

I schedule the big things (colonoscopies, etc) for the summer. But you know what? Sometimes my medical needs don’t coincide with summer. [/quote]

No doctors office in this area closes for 39 days between August and June please be serious. Nor are they booked solid for Eid. You are making teachers look entitled and yourself look absurd by trying to suggest a profession with incredible amounts of time off on weekdays is unable to access medical care. [/quote]

I get frustrated when people who are outside of the profession speak as if they are experts. I snorted at your notion of “incredible amounts of time off on weekdays.” You are laughably ignorant of a teacher’s true schedule.

If saying it’s hard to make appointments after 4:30 makes me “entitled,” then I’ll happily own it. This just ventured into silliness. 
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If you teach in Fairfax County, you have 39 weekdays days off between August and June. Most professions don’t offer 39 days off between January and December. Check your privilege.[/quote]

Not a teacher but many professionals also make a heck of a lot more money than teachers.

[b]You’re quick to continue to quote the 39 summer weekday[/b]s but you don’t mention anything about the evening and weekend hours teachers also work during the school year, well over their technical contract hours.

Not sure why you hate teachers so much. [/quote]

You misunderstand. There are 39 non-classroom weekdays during the school. No subs. No plans. Doctors offices all open (other than major Xmas/Thanksgiving).

I don’t hate teachers. I have them in my family and among my friends. But NONE of them would get on the internet and say they had a hard time scheduling doctors appointments.[/quote]

I was a teacher when my kid developed a life limiting illness.  He needed to see many specialist and every single one of them had restrictions on what days they saw kids.  I initially thought that since we saw multiple specialists at the same hospital, we could make it so we saw them on the same day.  But in fact, one was only in clinic on T/Th, and the next one saw patients M, T, W, but each day was devoted to a different kind of patient, my kid's kind of patient was assigned Monday, and the third one was just Fridays.  So, we'd at the same hospital 3 times in one week.  One of the things that contributed to this was that doctors set aside time for paperwork, and prep work.  No one accuses a doctor who doesn't see patients on Thursdays of not working on Thursday, because everyone realizes that a doctor's job involves time that isn't patient facing.  But people like the one above, confuse non-classroom days with days off.  [/quote]

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