Lammie":f2t1y97i said:As someone who is working as a classroom instructional aid, I can tell you that I was totally suprised when I discovered that I had ten paid days off right off the bat. At my last job, you would have had to have been employed for 6 months before you could use sick leave and a year before you could use accrued vacation time. Teachers taking off a couple of days after school had been on for only a week? For a vacation? Hello! June, July, part of August???
I don't think that teachers are overpaid. It is a part time job. I made less than a first year teacher at many schools in Texas after 5 years at my old position. And I worked with kids that the schools were sending to us because they didn't want to mess with them all day. Year round.
Teachers, IMHO, have it made, and I don't see what the beef is.
Alvarado gets 10 days? Wow! Rio Vista gets 7 personal days. There is no set sick leave...it's just 7 days period and the teachers can't accumulate them and carry them over. Last year, my daughter contracted viral mennigitis in the first six weeks of the school year and landed in the hospital for 6 days. Her 7 days were history within/the first six weeks.
Alice