the district finally agreed to change the policy so teachers arent penalized for staying home during bad weather. i am honestly so relieved for everyone who wont have to risk their safety or lose their leave anymore. thank you for keeping the pressure on until they listened.
January 14, 2019
Final supporters
For Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS), snow days are typically "optional work days" for teachers in this district. This means that if teachers do not arrive at school, they must use a day of personal leave. In this district, teachers aren't allowed to work from home, they must clock in and out onsite. Teachers receive just 2 days of personal leave annually. This practice is outrageous and wrong for many reasons, most notably the following three:
- Snow days result in a make-up day added to the school calendar, this means one snow day equals two days of work for teachers (the snow day that they are expected to work, or use a personal leave day + the make-up day added to the calendar). There is no additional compensation provided for the make-up day. This is not fair.
- If conditions are not safe for our children to be transported, why are teachers expected to take the risk?
- Many of our teachers are parents and forcing them to work on a snow day leaves these parents scrambling to find childcare. This means that in order for a teacher to avoid using a day of personal leave, they are forced to risk their own safety and ask a caregiver to do the same.
The irony is that teachers routinely work outside of school on a regular basis. They take papers home to grade and prepare lessons during the evenings and weekends. There is no compensation for this overtime, but that is less important to our teachers than doing all that they can to educate our children.
We can do better! We the undersigned respectfully request Superintendent Pam Baldwin and the CHCCS School Board change the snow day policy to allow teachers, at minimum, to work from home on snow days or be compensated for the make-up day added to the school calendar.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
December 10, 2018
Reached 100 supporters
December 10, 2018
79 Comments
I am a new teacher and absolutely shocked by this policy. I would love to hear the reasoning behind this, because I cannot find one. This is an easy “benefit” to include for teachers to show a little more support and respect for their profession and all the hours they put in to their jobs without the pay.
I moved to Carrboro so that my son could go to school HERE, in one of the best districts in the state. His teachers go above and beyond for him, again and again. I trust that they work hard and do what is in our children’s best interest. They shouldn’t have to make up snow days with their leave time. Please allow them the option of working from home, safely.
This is an outdated policy. It puts teachers and caregivers for those in their charge at risk to leave their homes on adverse weather days. There is no reason in 2018 teachers can’t work from home. I suggest you ask teachers how many hours they already put in at home. Our teachers are professionals.
This puts me as a parent and a teacher and a very difficult situation every time we have weather! Especially because I do not live in the district
Our teachers should not have to risk their safety to get to work when they will be making up the day later in the school year anyway. Lord knows they will still do any work that needs to be done at home, just as they do throughout the rest of the school year—grading papers and lesson-planning at home, with no extra pay.
Please support our excellent teachers. They continuously give back more than they are compensated for.
Consider allowing teachers to log hours outside of the school day and apply to that day or work from home.. we are doing it anyway!
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the district finally agreed to change the policy so teachers arent penalized for staying home during bad weather. i am honestly so relieved for everyone who wont have to risk their safety or lose their leave anymore. thank you for keeping the pressure on until they listened.
January 14, 2019
Final supporters
For Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS), snow days are typically "optional work days" for teachers in this district. This means that if teachers do not arrive at school, they must use a day of personal leave. In this district, teachers aren't allowed to work from home, they must clock in and out onsite. Teachers receive just 2 days of personal leave annually. This practice is outrageous and wrong for many reasons, most notably the following three:
- Snow days result in a make-up day added to the school calendar, this means one snow day equals two days of work for teachers (the snow day that they are expected to work, or use a personal leave day + the make-up day added to the calendar). There is no additional compensation provided for the make-up day. This is not fair.
- If conditions are not safe for our children to be transported, why are teachers expected to take the risk?
- Many of our teachers are parents and forcing them to work on a snow day leaves these parents scrambling to find childcare. This means that in order for a teacher to avoid using a day of personal leave, they are forced to risk their own safety and ask a caregiver to do the same.
The irony is that teachers routinely work outside of school on a regular basis. They take papers home to grade and prepare lessons during the evenings and weekends. There is no compensation for this overtime, but that is less important to our teachers than doing all that they can to educate our children.
We can do better! We the undersigned respectfully request Superintendent Pam Baldwin and the CHCCS School Board change the snow day policy to allow teachers, at minimum, to work from home on snow days or be compensated for the make-up day added to the school calendar.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
December 10, 2018
Reached 100 supporters
December 10, 2018
79 Comments
I once had a major traffic accident involving black ice while attempting to make it to work on an Optional Day, in order to avoid losing pay. This cause is important to me. I work countless hours at home. Let’s give teachers a tiny taste of the respect corporate America has.
I am a new teacher and absolutely shocked by this policy. I would love to hear the reasoning behind this, because I cannot find one. This is an easy “benefit” to include for teachers to show a little more support and respect for their profession and all the hours they put in to their jobs without the pay.
I moved to Carrboro so that my son could go to school HERE, in one of the best districts in the state. His teachers go above and beyond for him, again and again. I trust that they work hard and do what is in our children’s best interest. They shouldn’t have to make up snow days with their leave time. Please allow them the option of working from home, safely.
This is an outdated policy. It puts teachers and caregivers for those in their charge at risk to leave their homes on adverse weather days. There is no reason in 2018 teachers can’t work from home. I suggest you ask teachers how many hours they already put in at home. Our teachers are professionals.
This puts me as a parent and a teacher and a very difficult situation every time we have weather! Especially because I do not live in the district
Our teachers should not have to risk their safety to get to work when they will be making up the day later in the school year anyway. Lord knows they will still do any work that needs to be done at home, just as they do throughout the rest of the school year—grading papers and lesson-planning at home, with no extra pay.
Please support our excellent teachers. They continuously give back more than they are compensated for.
Consider allowing teachers to log hours outside of the school day and apply to that day or work from home.. we are doing it anyway!
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I once had a major traffic accident involving black ice while attempting to make it to work on an Optional Day, in order to avoid losing pay. This cause is important to me. I work countless hours at home. Let’s give teachers a tiny taste of the respect corporate America has.