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School District’s Sick Day Reform Plan Means Employees Can Miss Two-Thirds of the Year!

djaymick Wrote: Jan 20, 2013 9:30 PM

If you think this is bad, certain school districts allow teachers to take a full year off (sabbatical) and still receive their full salary. My sister-in-law teaches in Western PA as a Spanish teacher and went to Spain for a year during her sabbatical. She insists it helps her with her job (has the Spanish language really changed that much), but it's nothing but a huge taxpayer scam.

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School District’s Sick Day Reform Plan Means Employees Can Miss Two-Thirds of the Year!

Many school districts allow employees to accrue unused sick days without limit and cash them out upon retirement.

In the Detroit district, for example, such a policy cost the district $12.5 million in unused sick leave in 2010-11.

It’s a major problem, but too many school districts are only taking baby steps to correct it.

In the small Holton, Michigan district, support personnel earn one sick day for each month worked. They’ve been allowed to accrue unused sick days without limit and cash them out upon retirement, or take extended leaves for any reason.

But now school officials are...

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