“I don’t want to be sick, and I don’t deserve to be penalized because I was sick,” one teacher said.
Mitchell Elementary art teacher Mauve Rooney takes part in a rally to discontinue the "3-5-7-9" policy, which penalizes them for taking earned sick days, outside the Philadelphia School District headquarters on Thursday, May 23, 2024.With the district’s “3-5-7-9″ policy, teachers are given memos and have informal conferences with their principal after their third absence “occurrence,” whether it’s a single sick day or a consecutive stretch of days.
Yoeun’s colleague Maeve Rooney, Mitchell’s art teacher, had more occurrences than usual because her husband died.Charlie Hudgins, a math teacher at Lincoln High, finds the policy especially frustrating given the current teacher shortage in Philadelphia and across the country. Absence-related sanctions are carried out unevenly across the district and even within schools, Hudgins said.
Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. has emphasized the importance of teacher attendance as a hallmark of his strategic plan to improve academic outcomes in the district, but said he does not want teachers to come to school when they’re ill. But he’s also acknowledged problems with the 3-5-7-9 policy, and said changes are on the table.
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