[CoachNM0523]

I understand everybody gets sick. Why not instead of a certain amount of sick days, you just call in when you get sick and bring in a valid doctor's excuse up to so many days. Since teachers get around 100 days off a year anyways, there's no need for sick time accruing.

I’m in the minority of teachers who feel this way, and I’m sure it’s because I’ve not been in the profession for super long.. but the way I see it is that by the time I can retire there are going to be a lot of different governors come through that I’m sure will make a lot of different changes to the pension and retirement for teachers. There’s no reason for me to get worked up about it now because it’ll be awhile before I can retire anyways. My comment was directed more towards the sick day thing, because I believe what you’ll see happen is as a way to “get back” at the governor you’re going to see teachers take the amount of sick days they’re given or have accrued thus far, and in turn a Few things will happen. You’ll have instances like with the FCPS where so many people call in there’s not enough subs. You’ll have to pay the teacher as well as the sub. You’ll have kids being robbed of their learning because very few subs come in and teach. They’re more there as a baby sitter. But for me, I get paid to come in and teach.. so I come in and teach. I do the job everyday that I was hired to. If I wanna take a day off to go watch the sweet 16, or the football championships, I’ll take a personal day.