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[quote=Anonymous]This has been one of the most ignorant threads I’ve followed on this forum, and that’s saying something. For those of you suggesting we teachers are getting tons of vacation days already, I’d like to provide you some clarity.
According to the contract with MCPS, 10 month employees shall not work more than 195 duty days. With our present schedule, we have 181 days of instruction, 11 days of professional days (grading or professional development), 1 day for the transition day, and 16 hours (2 days) of our choosing for work beyond our duty day, which I can guarantee underestimates the actual time we work beyond the classroom. That makes 195 duty days, which is what we are paid to do. Our pay for those 195 duty days are broken up over a period of 219 days. Some counties break up the pay over 365 days (or 366 in a leap year), but we don’t in MCPS. Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year’s Day are not part of the 195 days I’m contracted to work, therefore you can’t call them vacation days for me. They’re no different than the weekend
Many people remind teachers that we chose to be teachers. I agree with that. I chose to provide 195 days of labor under the terms of a contract for a certain wage and benefits. One of those benefits is that I get leave that I can use.

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