Taking some time off to help an ailing parent is okay. As you may see from my handle I'm in Wisconsin, after the ruckus on the capitol lawn 1 1/2 years ago teachers here don't have a real good name. Several school districts had to cancel school because some teachers thought it was okay to call in sick so they could go and protest the governor and his budget repair plan (and do several hundreds of thousand of dollars damage to the state capitol and grounds). Oh yes some of their good union buddies found Doctor's (unionized State employees) to forge Doctor's excuses and the teacher's union threatened legal action if the forged excuses weren't accepted. A local teacher here found out getting drunk and using your school e-mail account to curse out and threaten our local state representative and the Governor wasn't the best idea he had. He was a good teacher and I witnessed some of his work that caused some students to reach out and go farther than they thought they could, but he crossed a line and is no longer in education, maybe if his union hadn't overstated the effect the Governor's changes would have in his job and compensation he might of not gotten so upset that he did something stupid and he'd still be making a difference in some of his student's lives. I have no doubt that some teachers work hard and are worth a lot more than they are paid, but their are quite a few that if they were only paid minimum wage it'd still be about twice what they're worth. In our neighboring state the unions are trying to get a constitutional amendment passed that would prevent firing teachers found drunk while in the classroom. The various teacher's unions really need to get a grip on something the world calls reality and realize they need the support of their communities and going out on strike and demanding a 29% wage hike over three years in the worst economy in 60 years isn't the way to get it. Here in Wisconsin we are lucky to have good schools, but I think it's more of a function of the number of Catholic and Lutheran parochial schools, the public schools have to compete and the competition seems to make the public schools stronger. The teacher's union makes a lot of waves about needing more money for the schools but most of the parochial schools are producing the same or better results and in some cases at 1/2 the cost/student. About your spelling and grammar (oh by the way you didn't capitalize I in this post) I too have a college degree, let's say let those who have not sinned cast the first stone, and that's all I am going to say about that. Because of your profession some are going to jump on you, some because of the lunacy many teacher's unions are trying to force on us, others maybe because they feel a teacher messed them over at some time in the past and they still want to get even and some because of the blind faith and support teacher's unions give our current president and the far left in general. Socialism and communism has failed anywhere it has been tried, the scientific method would indicate that it's not going to work, so why do we keep trying it? Some psychologists define doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results as insanity.
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