San Francisco parents rally around teacher with cancer who has to pay for her own substitute

[Demovictory9]

U.S. NEWS
San Francisco parents rally around teacher with cancer who has to pay for her own substitute
Parents at Glen Park Elementary School are pitching in to help the teacher fighting breast cancer cover the costs for her substitute.

A group of parents in San Francisco are rallying around a second-grade teacher with breast cancer who was required to pay for her classroom's substitute teacher while she is on medical leave.

The parents at Glen Park Elementary School were stunned to learn that the teacher's paycheck was being docked $195 for each day she is out ill with the disease.

"I just feel sad that from what I heard, she is a very good teacher and I just feel sad what's going on to her," Narciso Flores-Diaz, a parent, told NBC Bay Area on Wednesday. "Our school is pulling together to help her and to make her feel that she’s not alone."

Teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District get 10 sick days per year, and then another 100 days of extended medical leave time.

But after a teacher uses the 10 sick days and is on the extended leave, the district bills them for the cost of a substitute, in keeping with a little-known provision of California's education code.

Parents at the school have raised more than $13,000 to cover the substitute's pay.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-francisco-parents-rally-around-teacher-cancer-who-has-pay-n1003871

[Ohiogal]

1. Just

[lindysalsagal]

2. People think teachers are disposable, irreplaceable. Too expensive.

So they nickle and dime them, and threaten to take away medical coverage.....but their children will get cheated out of a good education.

This is why we need unions.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Is that really legal?

[Hav]

4. Wow, that is effed up

I wonder if there is any other profession where you have to pay for your replacement while you are sick. What mind comes up with provisions like these and gete the support to get it passed?

[genxlib]

5. Sadly

This is probably still a better deal than people in the private sector would get. Even people who have enough job security to have sick leave probably would be out of a paycheck all together.

I have very good benefits in a good professional career and that scenario would put me on short term disability insurance at 60cents on the dollar.

Based on what Google says about the average teacher salary this sounds like a very strange way to get to the same deal. The teacher keeps about 60cents on the dollar while the sub gets the rest.

It sucks but not a lot different than most would end up with at best. Just more of our gofundme culture trying to keep people out of the poor house when they get sick.

[dsc]

6. The amount is less in North Carolina but we have the same policy

We get ten days a year that do roll over. I have 95.7 sick days built up. But if I were to have a heart attack or something like that, and burn through those I would be paying $50 per day for my extended days. I am very surprised a heavily unionized state such as California this is the case.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

7. wow!

there must be no union or a very poor one at that to allow this to go on...…….

[appalachiablue]

8. From the article:

"Years ago, California teachers opted not to pay into the state's disability insurance program, so they can't draw from those benefits. So lawmakers in 1976 inserted into the education code that a teacher who couldn't work due to illness or injury must pay for his or her substitute.

State Sen. Connie Leyva, a Democrat from suburban Los Angeles and chair of the body's education committee, vowed to change that law. "Candidly, I think that times have changed and it’s our job to change with the times," Leyva told NBC Bay Area."

[demtenjeep]

9. because of my severe crohns, I lose close to 300 dollars a day after I hit deduct. Usually @ Decemb

I Had two days in the last month I couldn't go in. My check will be severely impacted.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. WTFs with that?

[sarcasmo]

11. Merica!

[a kennedy]

12. and it's in California....I thought it would have been more of a red state...nope it's

California...... and it makes me ill.