Reply #41: When I was teaching, or contract gave us 10 days every school year. [View All]

[cherokeeprogressive]

Sick, personal business, whatever.

Once every month I'd call my lead administrator and call in "healthy". We'd have a good laugh, and then I'd email her a lesson plan for each of my classes, and go golfing. About a third of the time I went golfing with her husband, who was an administrator at a different school in our district.

We used to get into heated discussions in the break room about saving sick days to get that extra .3% at retirement, but I just couldn't see the bother over three/tenths of one percent. Plus, I love to golf.

We had a select group of substitute teachers, and taking a day off now and then helped them out immensely.