Their students probably grow up to write "over 10 absences," when it should be, "more than 10 absences."

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Anonymous wrote:Not really, I use 25 days of PTO a year at my job and not person on DCUM comments on it.

So, you must not have a demanding job if you can take that much time off. That translates to five work weeks. And, I assume you also get additional holidays.

A family member just got a promotion because a colleague was fired for using 30 days of PTO. How does your company get its work done?

Plenty of work gets done in an extremely challenging industry. It’s not 25 days in a row.

The thing thats hard about teaching is you have a new set of families annually that expect your best year, every single year. I have had years where I use ZERO pto or sick days, many years actually. But I have also had years where one of my kids had an injury that requires multiple surgeries and follow up ortho appointments, I have had years were I had cancer, I have had years where my husband worked in London for 4-6 months out of the year. Most of the time no one, outside of my principal, knew these circumstances. If I had 28 years at a company, vs a school system, and I had a heavy PTO year... no one would blink because they have known my work for decades. I still give my best every single year, every single day, or I wouldn't be doing it, but you will get some off years where I use a lot of PTO, its just how the cookie crumbles.

I can’t imagine counting my kids’ teachers PTO days.

Anonymous wrote:I think people should stop using “per year” to describe leave taken within ten months not including the 39 vacation days already included.

Weird flex. Everyone I've ever met calls it the school YEAR.

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Anonymous wrote:Not really, I use 25 days of PTO a year at my job and not person on DCUM comments on it.

So, you must not have a demanding job if you can take that much time off. That translates to five work weeks. And, I assume you also get additional holidays.

A family member just got a promotion because a colleague was fired for using 30 days of PTO. How does your company get its work done?

No company can fire anyone for using the PTO benefits the company offers. This would be an employment lawyer’s dream - what a layup of a lawsuit.

Anonymous wrote:You've never gotten the real flu.

??

I’m a DP, but I had the flu in January. Even had the test to prove it.

If it were a silly cold? I’d be at work. I’d never bother with sub plans for a silly cold. No time for that.

But my pesky body decided it couldn't move for four days, which would have made it a bit hard to walk the aisle of my classroom.

Like PP said, I would have loved to schedule that for the summer. Then I wouldn’t have had to make sub plans, grade sub plans, and answer so many emails. I did all of this as it was painful to even move my fingers.

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Anonymous wrote:I think people should stop using “per year” to describe leave taken within ten months not including the 39 vacation days already included.

You're right, teachers should definitely schedule their illnesses to happen during summer and winter break. It's so inconvenient to get the flu in January.

Yes and they should make sure their children never get sick, or their parents never get sick, or heaven forbid someone pass away during the school year.

Everyone else in every other industry obviously never takes any of their personal time off so why should teachers have normal lives. They must be held to different standards.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen. They will miss IEP meetings, children will not learn, and people on DCUM will make excuses for them.

Unless they teach in private school.

Well that was dramatic…

You should look up how many lawsuits FCPS loses about IEPs, and how often teacher no-shows play a part. It costs the system real money, and the students suffer (if you care).

Yes. That is why the teacher has to remove the class instead of the kid having the meltdown.

There is no question that no child should ever be abused, but common sense no longer rules.

You've never gotten the real flu.

Anonymous wrote:I think people should stop using “per year” to describe leave taken within ten months not including the 39 vacation days already included.

You're right, teachers should definitely schedule their illnesses to happen during summer and winter break. It's so inconvenient to get the flu in January.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen. They will miss IEP meetings, children will not learn, and people on DCUM will make excuses for them.

Unless they teach in private school.

Well that was dramatic…

You should look up how many lawsuits FCPS loses about IEPs, and how often teacher no-shows play a part. It costs the system real money, and the students suffer (if you care).

I think people should stop using “per year” to describe leave taken within ten months not including the 39 vacation days already included.

Most of us don't want to be out, OP. It's way way way more work to write good sub plans, fight fires when you return, catch up kids who didn't understand your video lessons, etc. We all do everything we can to be at school unless it's a true emergency to be out, or a unique opportunity that can't be replicated another time of year (wedding, etc).

We get ~10 days of leave per year. We can use 6 of them for personal reasons, the rest are for sick leave only. If a teacher is taking extensive time off, 9 times out of 10 they are ill, or dealing with a sick family member.

I get 15 sick days and one personal day per year. Most teachers have trainings during the school day too. A few sick days and personal days plus a training or two easily adds up to 10. Plus family members die so there are bereavement days too. I had my cousin and brother die within a month or two of each other last year. That added up to 6 days alone.