According to APS, teachers in the APS are absent 8.7% of the time. The national average for teachers and instructional staff is 5.2 %.
The issue is illegitimate absences, not legitimate.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that teachers are actually sick 4% of the time and their consequent absence is legitimate. Remember that teachers hang around sick kids all day, every day. And 4% represents less than one full day per month.
We are left then with a national average of 1.2% illegitimate absences.
We are left then with, in the APS, 4.7% illegitimate absences.
The 3.5% difference, divided by the 1.2% national average of illegitimate absences, yields 2.92. Or, APS teacher morale and absenteeism are 292% worse than the national average.
Or, it sucks so bad to be a teacher in the APS,
that teachers here take "mental health days"
almost three times as often as teachers nationwide.
Sometime after the leadership of the APS
admits that there is a problem;
they will start working on its solution.
In the meantime, they are content spin the truth
and allow teachers to take the heat from stakeholders.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
APS teacher morale and absenteeism are 3 times worse than the national average
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Or, it sucks so bad to be a teacher in the APS,
that teachers here take "mental health days"
almost three times as often as teachers nationwide.
You got that right, Ched! If we didn't take mental health days, I'm not sure there would be enough room for the bodies.
An additional thought... other districts give absences for training and seminars, which I'm sure goes into the national absentee averages...however, APS doesn't provide training and seminar days too easily...they'll give the days off, but make the employee pay for everything else.
So the absenteeism is probably worse than this figure in APS
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