Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I noticed that my DD Teacher misses school? She missed school 5 days this year. and My DS teacher missed school 9 days this year. My friend think is strange that I check how many times they misss school but I like making sure my kids are learning so I take attandance. do you do the same?

I'm confused how taking attendance makes sure your kids are learning. Are they practicing counting or data collection?

just making sure my kids are learning

Oh they're learning alright. What a whack job their mother is

Anonymous wrote:I noticed that my DD Teacher misses school? She missed school 5 days this year. and My DS teacher missed school 9 days this year. My friend think is strange that I check how many times they misss school but I like making sure my kids are learning so I take attandance. do you do the same?

Your friend is right. YOURE batshit crazy

I think OP is one of "those moms".

How dare teachers get sick, have deaths in the family, have children who get sick... and otherwise have reasons to miss work like everyone else.

Of course I do, along with their menstrual cycles. Who wouldn't?

A parent complained to my principal as well. It was my son's first year in daycare. Lots of fevers. DH and I traded off staying home, and I stayed under my ten sick days. <shrug>

Anonymous wrote:Troll.

NP here. Not a troll. I'm a teacher and I had a parent report my "absences" to the principal. Seriously. The parent didn't notice any of the good I had done that year but she noticed every day I was gone.

If you were in a classroom with a couple dozen kids all day, you'd get sick too. And it would be better for the whole class if you stayed home and got well instead of passing your illness off to others.

OP, you must have a lot of time on your hands.

FYI-it's the principal's job to monitor teacher attendance, not yours.

I don't keep a record of my kids' teachers' attendance, but I do note it mentally. Sometimes the subs are very good, other times the class is out of control.

My kids also go to private school and there were many many absences on the part of one of my kids' teachers (I think at least 3 or 4 weeks in total). She always gave a reason (sickness, aunt passed on, son got married, father in law sick). Obviously all the reasons are valid. So I don't begrudge her specifically, because life happens, but I did begrudge the (expensive) private school that they didn't have a good group of subs to go draw from. So I actually pulled my kids out of the school for next year. They are going to public next year. Not that I think public school teachers are going to be out any less, but at least I won't be shelling out $$ for poorly trained subs.

What are you going to do with the teacher's attendance record? They have personal days and sick leave too. Sometimes they might be absent but they are in the school doing something.

If it's so routine, you can bring the issue up to the principal. There were come case at our school where the teacher was absent most of the first month she took over. It seem like there was a substitute every week for a few days. And of course, the kids did not like that and neither did the parents. Eventually the teacher became more consistent.

My son didn't like the teacher in training because he claims she's not teaching and I guess her methods and way of speaking doesn't impress him. I told him, I can't do much about that because they all have to take in one to train that person to become a teacher. Not satisfied with me, he went to the main teacher and told her that. And the teacher tried to have more group times. So, I would have your child talk to the teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:Op, we are at a private and I do take teacher attendance. I do it because when the kids say teacher wasn't there today, what follows is a description of a pretty bad school day. The kids want a routine. Teachers want days off.

You do this kind of thing and think "teachers want days off" and I'll bet you're one of the people who complains teachers are not very good anymore. It's because the good ones have quit to take jobs where they are respected as professionals and where they can take sick days and not have to spend hours preparing sub plans for your grubby little brats.

Hit a sore spot here I see. Kids actually clean and well behaved, but appreciate your concern. The teachers are very good. Administration pulls them from class frequently. They do get sick sometimes. They have training days and half days where school is closed to students. My childrens well paid very capable teachers are in the classroom for 70% of the class hours blocked out for them. Somethings wrong. The responses on this thread remind me of the NEAs freak out to the idea of actually testing students and rewarding schools and teachers who outperform. If the teachers are skilled professionals then it matters that they be present to provide continuity and depth of understanding. Otherwise it's just a rotating group of automatons delivering today's assigned impersonal lesson. Why can't teacher development be a week program before the children's first day of school? Cuts into their family vacation time?

Do you ask this about other professions? Do you question why your surgeon needs time to plan your operation and review your case notes? Or why your lawyer needs time to review documents and gather testimony and craft questions? Or why the chef can't close his restaurant for a week in August and cook the meals for the year?

Professional Development is an ongoing process. It's done by using real data, in real time. You learn something, perhaps a new way to analyze data, or to use a new piece of technology, and then you have some time to apply it to your work, and then you come back for feedback and follow up questions. If there's no time for application between sessions, it simply doesn't work, and the students don't benefit from it.

So what are you going to do with this information? Teaching is a job. Teachers are allowed to be sick and have emergencies. The teacher obviously got all time off approved so it's not like they are skipping school and you are going to out them. I'm wondering how many days your kids missed and how many times you sent them when they were ill.

Perhaps OP should become a school administrator so she can hire only teachers who promise not to take time off because they can guarantee that they will not get sick, their children will not get sick, their elderly parents will not get sick or need extra assistance, they have no friends or relatives that will schedule important events that require travel on a school day, and they will never have any sort of household emergency that requires them to be home during the day for plumbers/electricians/exterminators/etc.
I'm sure she will have no problems filling her school with staff who will be there all the time.

Troll.

And please tell me which private your children attend where the teachers are well paid. Lol. I don't know of any privates that pay close to public school salaries.