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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.  [b]Their absence does not create more work for the teacher. [/b]

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]

With all due respect, it absolutely does still create more work for teachers. Even the most diligent, unicorn student who misses a week of school creates additional work.  Whether it's preparing the work early, needing support clarifying things they didn't understand when they return, scheduling missed tests requiring me to stay after school late, handing me a stack of work upon their return that takes longer to grade since it's one off instead of a whole class of assignments, delaying my ability to pass back assessments to their peers since they didn't take them on time...it's a lot of little things that compound to a significant amount of time and energy.

I will never complain to your face, so you might not see any of the extra tasks your vacation causes a teacher, but they are absolutely there. To say, "My vacation doesn't impact anyone else" is incorrect. The job is easiest when everyone is present every day. Any absence, for any reason, causes teachers additional work.[/quote]

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