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Act of God days

by I am a teacher

Mar 29, 2011

We had 5 emergency days built into the calendar, we are making those days up, 2 days at Easter, 3 more added to the end of the year. Unfortunately, this was a bad snow year for us and we had to take 5 additional days that were applied for as Act of God days. After telling a few teachers that we would be done by a certain date, and they go ahead and booked vacations, etc., the superintendent has now decided that we should make these days up. The problem: he only wants to involve the teachers, NO support staff, who essentially also got paid for " watching TV, doing whatever at home". This is the first time in 30 years that the district has had to use Act of God days, we put in hours and hours of "extra time", which he admitted that we as teachers do, plus, it is breaking contract, which is the biggest problem we have with it. We won't be allowed to make up the days as we choose, only how the superintendent wants us to, which is to do a book study on a book that he has picked out. The sam...See MoreWe had 5 emergency days built into the calendar, we are making those days up, 2 days at Easter, 3 more added to the end of the year. Unfortunately, this was a bad snow year for us and we had to take 5 additional days that were applied for as Act of God days. After telling a few teachers that we would be done by a certain date, and they go ahead and booked vacations, etc., the superintendent has now decided that we should make these days up. The problem: he only wants to involve the teachers, NO support staff, who essentially also got paid for " watching TV, doing whatever at home". This is the first time in 30 years that the district has had to use Act of God days, we put in hours and hours of "extra time", which he admitted that we as teachers do, plus, it is breaking contract, which is the biggest problem we have with it. We won't be allowed to make up the days as we choose, only how the superintendent wants us to, which is to do a book study on a book that he has picked out. The same thing we have had SIP days on for the last year and a half. We asked if we could receive CPDU's for it, he didn't think we could do that. You being a teacher, should know that we all put in way more than the five AOG days that we used, ever, without pay, regcognition, etc. anything at all for it. I spend more money than I care to think about on my classroom as I'm sure we all do. It's the principle of the matter that is so frustrating, and the manner that he has gone about it. We were also told that if we do not attend the State of District meeting in April, that he will remember who was in attendance and we will suffer the repercussions of not attending. He told us he did not care what our contract language said, or what our contract said period. He will make a statement to the public that our teachers and the union does not care about the State of our District, and cares more about making money for doing nothing. He also said we will be negotiating the contract in 9 to 10 months, he will remember what was said and done if we do not go along with his proposal of making them up. But, he also insists that this is not a threat. I'm sorry you can't compare us to the general public, I work hard and go above and beyond my job. Does your mother get paid when she works above and beyond the hours required? Does she spend hundreds of dollars on the things she needs to run her office??

I work for CPS. From what I understood, there used to be emergency days built into the calendar, but they no longer do that. The two days we got off for snow were paid out of our deferred pay bank that is used for summer break. So now we have to work two extra days in June to make up that amount. It all evens out in the end. I don't understand what your complaint is. You were essentially paid to stay home and watch TV! Or read, do laundry, play with your kids, shovel snow, whatever. The district just wants you to make up that time. You're still getting paid, right? It's not like they want you to work for free. It's certainly better than the office where my mother works, in which no one was paid for the day the office had to be closed during the blizzard.

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