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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid’s teachers have regularly had policies which make it very difficult to catch up. They often seem to suggest that the kid needs to catch up by working at home, while sick. But if the kid is too sick to go to school, usually he’s too sick to do schoolwork. It just feels like they want to have it both ways.

Sometimes it feels like teachers just want the kids to be sick less. [/quote]

This discussion is illuminating. Of course the angry teacher poster doesn't speak for all teachers, but it helps me to understand that even before the pandemic, some teachers favored policies to intended protect teachers from being exposed to illness, regardless of severity or actual risk, to the detriment of childrens' education. No teacher should ever be forced to catch a cold, so all sniffling children should be excluded from school. And each of them needs to individually approach each of their teachers to make arrangement to make up the work, subject to teacher discretion to allow them to make up the work. Oh, and by the way, if you are sick, stay home as instructed, and ask to make up the work, you have to do it either before or after school, so you'll need your own transportation for that too. [/quote]

Teachers in my district get only 10 paid sick days which we have to split between personal illness and illness in family. When my younger DD was really little, anything I caught at work, she would catch. And then end up at the Children’s ER for asthma. I was a divorced mom so I could easily use up my 10 days of sick leave before Christmas just from parents sending sick kids 2-3 times. Any days missed after that, my pay was docked. I was losing money so that other parents didn’t lose a day of work. At the time, I worked at a W feeder. The parents were much better off than me, but I was indirectly subsidizing their careers. [/quote]

Honestly 10 days is pretty standard around here for people who are on salary. Some people do get 15. And I haven’t really heard of a separate leave for sick children. It doesn’t sound like you had it worse than most salaried workers, honestly. [/quote]

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