{"id":6072,"date":"2012-05-31T19:49:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T23:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:08:35","slug":"should-north-country-teachers-get-to-retire-on-their-sick-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/05\/31\/should-north-country-teachers-get-to-retire-on-their-sick-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Should North Country teachers get to &#8220;retire&#8221; on their sick days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/editorial-let-taxpayers-decide\/article_81784ece-aad3-11e1-8f80-001a4bcf887a.html\">Glens Falls Post Star<\/a> is calling on its editorial page for more openness during contract talks between school districts and unions.<\/p>\n<p>One detail they note is that the Warrensburg district appears to be allowing teachers to accrue huge chunks of sick days, which can then be used to effectively retire early, while taxpayers continue to pay for a full-time teacher.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you believe the devil is in the detail, here is one that stuck out  to us. Warrensburg teachers have been able to roll over unused sick  days with no limit so they could eventually be used as an early  retirement at full pay.<\/p>\n<p>Warrensburg\u2019s school board wanted to cap  the sick days at 235 days (more than a year\u2019s worth of paid time and a  pretty offer in our estimation). The union said changes to sick days and  health insurance were \u201cdeal-breakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Often it is benefits such  as these we hear the most outrage over from taxpayers. We believe that  teachers perform an immensely important role in our society and should  be paid accordingly, but we\u2019re not so sure they should be able to run up  years worth of sick time. Sick time is supposed to be used when you are  sick, not for when you retire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 This is the sort of thing that often makes private sector workers grumble.\u00a0 In the non-government world, sick days are sick days, not a vacation or retirement benefit.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Should the same apply to teachers?\u00a0 Or should teachers who don&#8217;t get sick get to bank their days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glens Falls Post Star is calling on its editorial page for more openness during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,6,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}