Are you a teacher? If yes, do you get sick often?

[LV]

I just started my month long block in a high school 10 days ago and I caught strap throat and fever from students already. My host teacher told me that she got sick many times during her first few years of teaching so I guess that's why teachers get 20 sick days per year. I still went to teach today but I couldn't talk at all...

[Bordello]

I work at a walk-in clinic where I see about 100 patients a day and I've only gotten sick once in the last year. Your body will get past the initial adjustment period and become pretty resilient.

[Think]

I guess that's why teachers get 20 sick days per year.

[Audiogenic]

Thats why they are given summer and p-a days off :P

[trixstar]

my geography teacher was gone for two and half months. and she kept getting sich about once a week thereafter. I'm guessing it was hard to fire her since she was unionized. unless she had a bunch of sick days that added up. i remember one of my teachers telling me that sick days do not go to waste after a school year. They accumulate. she also said that you can use your sick days to take a vacation too. She has about 300 sick days piled up! she's ready for a paid vacation =D

[LV]

my geography teacher was gone for two and half months. and she kept getting sich about once a week thereafter. I'm guessing it was hard to fire her since she was unionized. unless she had a bunch of sick days that added up. i remember one of my teachers telling me that sick days do not go to waste after a school year. They accumulate. she also said that you can use your sick days to take a vacation too. She has about 300 sick days piled up! she's ready for a paid vacation =D

No, you can't use sick days as your vacation unless you have a doctor's note saying you are very ill (to be able to take off for 2 weeks). Yes, you can accumulate the sick days but I believe they are changing that soon. Well...if you have 200 sick days not used by the time you retire you will get around $40000 for that many sick days (you need to have at least 200 sick days...if you have 400 sick days, you still only get $40000...it's taxable.)

[cjpark]

Thats why they are given summer and p-a days off :P

PA/PD days aren't really days off. Teachers still have to be at school or workshops.

I'm in my last placement in a high school, week 4 or 6 right now. Got sick during my first two placements but not this one so far.

[LV]

PA/PD days aren't really days off. Teachers still have to be at school or workshops.

I'm in my last placement in a high school, week 4 or 6 right now. Got sick during my first two placements but not this one so far.

WOW...2/3 sick so far. So I guess my host teacher was right! My host teacher was nice and told me to take a day off to get better cuz I could barely talk nor conduct the big bands. You are almost done I'm in 4th year in Con-Ed so I still have one more year to go.

[McLaren]

I often get Kiwi-itus at work.

[manixc]

maybe you need Cold-fx

[corrupt123]

Not me personally but my girlfriends sister is a teacher at the lower gradeschool/toddler level. She's always sick, but it's with simpler stuff like colds and sniffles.

As for highschool, I'm currently attending and in the last 4 years I havn't had a lot of teachers that have taken off more than a day due to illness. Usually it's for other reasons... Friday before march break anyone?

[nickia]

I'm student and I'm always "sick" once per week for 75 minutes