1 in 4 U.S. teachers are chronically absent

Why sure. Just check out the drive thru lane at Burger World, there's all sorts of people who could do it.

 

Teachers might have 180 instructional days, but actually closer to 200 duty days.

 

That's accounted-for in the DofE study. Being absent for their purposes was not being present on a scheduled day of instruction.

 

Interesting. From my experience, my alotted days -- 6 sick, 2 personal, rolling over up to 3 to the next year -- were for use for any duty day.

 

You misunderstand. That's simply how they defined it for the study.

 

Right. Just adding anecdotal, unsolicited context from a former K-12 educator.

 

Did she save up PTO for her maternity leave? That's a fairly common thing around here, and could account for some (not all) of the absentees, since teaching is a profession that disproportionately attracts women of child-bearing age.

 

Could possibly cross-tab with other occupations that employ large numbers of women.
Or combine occupations to equal same employment levels.

Women's Bureau (WB) Most Common Occupations for Women

 

Fuck if my wife is taking anything less than the full six weeks paid when our kid comes!

 

YF would have your wife fired for that.

 

Yankeefan would hate mothers in Canada who get a full year off.

 

I'm curious about this, and maybe you could shed some light on it ... How often is professional development (however broadly you want to define it) scheduled for days when the students are actually there? It's my sense that teachers rarely, if ever, do that sort of stuff on scheduled instruction days.