BCTF leave proposals include an increase in preparation time (non-teaching time for lesson preparation) to 25 per cent of a teacher's assignment.
There would be two additional days for report cards. Each teacher would receive one hour per student for preparing interim reports.
There is a logic there which recognizes that a teacher's work is not confined to the classroom, although somebody else would have to be paid to be in the classroom and no professional's work is ever done within fixed hours.
But there's more. Up to 10 days of paid leave would be granted for the death of a friend or any relative plus two days for travel.
Eight days per year of paid discretionary leave would also be available.
Sick days could be claimed at the rate of two per month (now 1.5) plus five days per year for chosen professional activities and five more days of paid leave to meet responsibilities for care, health or education of a child or "any other person."
Sick leave alone, without any increase, is already an enormous unfunded liability that sits like the proverbial tectonic fault line under the shaky surface of all school district budgets.
Here's the problem. A teacher who takes all their sick leave (plus any of the other proposed leaves) each year, would theoretically be out of the classroom for many days each year, during which time the employer would, again, presumably pay a second teacher to do the same job.
There's a proposed provision for 26 weeks of fully paid leave for direct or indirect compassionate care to (and I quote) "any person." That would be 130 more days with the same job being paid twice.
A teacher who chose to take the 26 weeks (130 days) of "fully paid leave per year for direct or indirect compassion-ate care to any person," plus all the other leaves could theoretically be on leave for more days than there are in the 190-day school year.
2 comments:
Amazing. I wonder what they get for Mat leave?? I'm facing 12 weeks at 90% top up then another 7 weeks at 70% top up then *possibly* 6 weeks fully paid vacation then back to work at week 26 (6 months). =( Which I realize is better than most people, and yet omg how do people afford the $862 take home biweekly offered by EI???? Wtf is THAT? Um the last time I had a paychq that small was I think in 1995...
Ha - I bring home less than that on the 15th and the 30th of every month. and that is with the raise I got last july. Imagine what I was bringing home before that
you should be able to get a year of mat leave There must be a step you are missing
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