Anonymous
02/19/2023 19:12
Subject: Re:APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:Do they get to cash in some portion of unused leave at retirement?
Yes. Paid at 50% of value at retirement.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 19:01
Subject: APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:I am an APS teacher. There is NO reason that staff at central office should have this much leave.
Duran gave the extra leave to central office staff during Covid as a nominal benefit to keep people. He made it permanent after that. It’s a waste of taxpayer money. Staff should be working 12 months at central office. That is what they are paid for.
Teachers have been complaining about it for years. Maybe if the community says something central office staff will have to go back to working a full 12 months with only regular holidays and annual leave.
Closing central office during days when teachers are off is not helpful. I used to go take care of paperwork during my off days, or call for information. Now I have to do it during my own work days. And pray that someone picks up the phone!
Anonymous
02/19/2023 18:57
Subject: Re:APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:I remember when Syphax/Duran basically told me to my face, a classroom teacher, that the 10 extra hours I work outside of contract hours each and every week of the school year are not good enough to count as "floating hours," a weird discrepancy created by Syphax, and I cannot get paid for planning for my classroom outside my contact hours. Even up to 35 of those hours. Something about tracking them. I dunno. He probably thinks like most people on DCUM that teachers are inherently lazy and they need to check all the crazy boxes laid out for them in order to prove they are actually working.
I should just not work for free. My classroom, curriculum and instruction would basically come to a screeching halt but this is how Duran values his teachers.
Yeah- I’m going to let them dock my pay for the floating hours. I just don’t feel like filling out the paperwork for all of the trainings I have taken that aren’t “district sponsored”. Let them take from the leave I will never be able to use and won’t get paid for when I retire. Or let them do the math and dock me. I have gotten multiple emails that I didn’t do the trainings I did complete. I sent screenshots of the completed info, get a reply saying “Oh yes you have completed- sorry!” And then an email saying I haven’t done it 2 days later. Forget it, I don’t need that money!
Anonymous
02/19/2023 18:57
Subject: APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What are their holidays? Teacher workdays?
What I saw seemed to be normal federal holidays. Do they get more than that?
It used to be that they had to take leave. Now they don’t so those off days became paid holidays.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 18:42
Subject: APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
I am an APS teacher. There is NO reason that staff at central office should have this much leave.
Duran gave the extra leave to central office staff during Covid as a nominal benefit to keep people. He made it permanent after that. It’s a waste of taxpayer money. Staff should be working 12 months at central office. That is what they are paid for.
Teachers have been complaining about it for years. Maybe if the community says something central office staff will have to go back to working a full 12 months with only regular holidays and annual leave.
Duran gave the extra leave to central office staff during Covid as a nominal benefit to keep people. He made it permanent after that. It’s a waste of taxpayer money. Staff should be working 12 months at central office. That is what they are paid for.
Teachers have been complaining about it for years. Maybe if the community says something central office staff will have to go back to working a full 12 months with only regular holidays and annual leave.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 17:40
Subject: Re:APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:Syphax hasn't exploded. Check the WABE guide: >90% of APS staff are in the schools. Like all the other neighboring school divisions. I'm on a committee and the central person I work with is really good.
Well, I’m in a classroom and 90% of the people I work with from Syphax are worthless.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 17:39
Subject: APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
So is Duran just as bad as Murphy? Why can’t APS hire any competent superintendents?
Anonymous
02/19/2023 17:32
Subject: Re:APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Syphax hasn't exploded. Check the WABE guide: >90% of APS staff are in the schools. Like all the other neighboring school divisions. I'm on a committee and the central person I work with is really good.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 17:09
Subject: APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They get all the days when teachers are off, (think Diwali, Jewish holidays, etc.) plus 2 week winter break and 1 week spring break, all paid for. Teachers on the other hand, do not get paid during those breaks.
And this is not the norm for employees that accrue leave (as they do). This was new under Duran. Also- someone from central office is obviously on this thread. For every five I’ve met, any teacher does the work of four of them. Syphax is a s—t show, and, yes, teachers in APS are very pissed off about it.
School board should conduct a survey to ask teachers what they think of Syphax, if they actually care about teachers who are at the front line.
Yes!
Anonymous
02/19/2023 16:44
Subject: APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They get all the days when teachers are off, (think Diwali, Jewish holidays, etc.) plus 2 week winter break and 1 week spring break, all paid for. Teachers on the other hand, do not get paid during those breaks.
And this is not the norm for employees that accrue leave (as they do). This was new under Duran. Also- someone from central office is obviously on this thread. For every five I’ve met, any teacher does the work of four of them. Syphax is a s—t show, and, yes, teachers in APS are very pissed off about it.
What’s stopping APS teachers from making a change into a role at Syphax?
it's all about connections at Syphax, not your ability.
And writing surveys. They love that over there.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 16:43
Subject: APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They get all the days when teachers are off, (think Diwali, Jewish holidays, etc.) plus 2 week winter break and 1 week spring break, all paid for. Teachers on the other hand, do not get paid during those breaks.
And this is not the norm for employees that accrue leave (as they do). This was new under Duran. Also- someone from central office is obviously on this thread. For every five I’ve met, any teacher does the work of four of them. Syphax is a s—t show, and, yes, teachers in APS are very pissed off about it.
What’s stopping APS teachers from making a change into a role at Syphax?
Not much, except the idea of rotting in a cubicle. More money, and now all of this leave.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 16:39
Subject: APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They get all the days when teachers are off, (think Diwali, Jewish holidays, etc.) plus 2 week winter break and 1 week spring break, all paid for. Teachers on the other hand, do not get paid during those breaks.
And this is not the norm for employees that accrue leave (as they do). This was new under Duran. Also- someone from central office is obviously on this thread. For every five I’ve met, any teacher does the work of four of them. Syphax is a s—t show, and, yes, teachers in APS are very pissed off about it.
What’s stopping APS teachers from making a change into a role at Syphax?
it's all about connections at Syphax, not your ability.
Because we aren’t all a$$holes. Some of us want to help KIDS, not “reach more children by helping adults.” That really means, I felt stressed and overwhelmed in the classroom so I thought this would be easier (heehee!). If you are asking me, I refused to go because I don’t want to be part of the problem and give already stressed people more work under the guise of “helping.” I don’t lie to myself that easily.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 16:15
Subject: Re:APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
I remember when Syphax/Duran basically told me to my face, a classroom teacher, that the 10 extra hours I work outside of contract hours each and every week of the school year are not good enough to count as "floating hours," a weird discrepancy created by Syphax, and I cannot get paid for planning for my classroom outside my contact hours. Even up to 35 of those hours. Something about tracking them. I dunno. He probably thinks like most people on DCUM that teachers are inherently lazy and they need to check all the crazy boxes laid out for them in order to prove they are actually working.
I should just not work for free. My classroom, curriculum and instruction would basically come to a screeching halt but this is how Duran values his teachers.
I should just not work for free. My classroom, curriculum and instruction would basically come to a screeching halt but this is how Duran values his teachers.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 16:11
Subject: APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They get all the days when teachers are off, (think Diwali, Jewish holidays, etc.) plus 2 week winter break and 1 week spring break, all paid for. Teachers on the other hand, do not get paid during those breaks.
And this is not the norm for employees that accrue leave (as they do). This was new under Duran. Also- someone from central office is obviously on this thread. For every five I’ve met, any teacher does the work of four of them. Syphax is a s—t show, and, yes, teachers in APS are very pissed off about it.
What’s stopping APS teachers from making a change into a role at Syphax?
it's all about connections at Syphax, not your ability.
I know many teachers at APS who refuse to apply for jobs at Syphax because they actually care about students.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 16:09
Subject: APS 12-month employees at central office get 31 paid holidays plus 14-40+ days of leave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They get all the days when teachers are off, (think Diwali, Jewish holidays, etc.) plus 2 week winter break and 1 week spring break, all paid for. Teachers on the other hand, do not get paid during those breaks.
And this is not the norm for employees that accrue leave (as they do). This was new under Duran. Also- someone from central office is obviously on this thread. For every five I’ve met, any teacher does the work of four of them. Syphax is a s—t show, and, yes, teachers in APS are very pissed off about it.
What’s stopping APS teachers from making a change into a role at Syphax?
it's all about connections at Syphax, not your ability.