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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]News Flash. If a teacher wants to schedule a doctor appointment on a Monday or Friday, they can. Just like you can at your job.  Oddly enough, [b]the teachers aren’t tracking your absences[/b].  I get being worried about your kid when a teacher is out for months at a time. My son has had two long term subs this year.  I don’t hold it against the teacher-unless they come back and never grade anything. [/quote]

Go look at some of the bitter teacher threads from this winter. There are teachers who say they won’t provide make up work, slamming parents for taking children to visit relatives overseas, and look I get it — social media.  But it is absolutely not the case that the schools don’t take a hyperactive interest in

In my experience, the schools take a hyperactive interest in your child’s absences when they impact your child’s performance or when you complain the teachers isn’t doing their job, yet your student has accrued 25 absences. My kids have never been slammed for a trip because they’re held accountable for what they miss.  Their absence does not create more work for the teacher.

The school takes no interest in your absences as an adult. Teachers are adults who’ve earned sick and personal days. They should be able to use them.  Parents don’t get to dictate teachers’ use of benefits. [/quote]

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