to all you teachers out there!

midnight26 Posted: Mar 08, 2011 08:46 PM

to all you teachers out there!

I was just thinking, how are all you girls dealing with your honeymoons? are you just waiting until the next available school break?

doing a mini-moon weekend trip after the wedding maybe? trying to figure out when i will plan the honeymoon, it's looking like I'm gonna wait until july because of school schedules....

dmbfan36 Posted: Mar 08, 2011 08:54 PM

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This i s why we are getting married in Feb right before Feb break. I really did not want to have to get married on the weekend and go back to school on Monday. Blah.

midnight26 Posted: Mar 08, 2011 08:56 PM

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ya. I'm the sunday of memorial day weekend. I really really want to take a personal day that tuesday, but that's kinda risky tenure year.

buuutttt I've never missed a day yet, so maybe they'll excuse it for the once in a lifetime i'm getting married event lol

leelou48 Posted: Mar 08, 2011 08:58 PM

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originally i was thinking may 4th and worrying about this....I was figuring I'd take a day off before and after and then have to wait until July.

Now that I'm 6/29 it works out a lot better

midnight26 Posted: Mar 08, 2011 09:02 PM

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oh you can go right after the wedding, school ends around the 24th/25th !

leelou48 Posted: Mar 08, 2011 09:14 PM

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the city ends 6/27 next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yuck yuck yuck-- all the way until wednesday!!!

and 6/28 this year!!!

absolutely awful! I'm very jealous of all of the LI teachers out there!

chliekm Posted: Mar 08, 2011 09:17 PM

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i'm not a teacher but all i could think of after reading this post was about the articles that came out about the teachers who were 'sick' for their honeymoon and had all the pics on FB. It stinks you are limited to the school breaks for your HM!!

EmilyandPeter Posted: Mar 08, 2011 09:19 PM

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My wedding is Saturday and the following Thursday starts Spring Break. I don't mind going in for a few days as a Mrs. then going on a honeymoon

Jill52787 Posted: Mar 08, 2011 09:24 PM

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that is why we planned the wedding for the week after school ends!

DonnaMarie7 Posted: Mar 08, 2011 09:36 PM

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Posted by chliekm

i'm not a teacher but all i could think of after reading this post was about the articles that came out about the teachers who were 'sick' for their honeymoon and had all the pics on FB. It stinks you are limited to the school breaks for your HM!!

Personally, I feel our sick/personal days should be our time. Especially if you are someone who doesn't abuse it. Some of those teachers were also fined $7500. I remember our principal telling us about it back in the beginning of the school year.

I'm getting married in July, but had we gotten married during the school year, I probably would have just waited until the next break. Stinks that those are always the most expensive times to travel too!

StephanieJoy Posted: Mar 08, 2011 09:48 PM

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I am not a teacher but we are going to wait for our Honeymoon. FH is going to college so we will wait till the semester is over and i am fine with that

courtneydemarco12 Posted: Mar 08, 2011 09:52 PM

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i am getting married on the 11th feb and the next week we will be at work and the following week i will going on my honeymoon. i can't wait until the summer and i really want to do it as soon as possible. so whatever presidents week is i am going to California.

Alannah22 Posted: Mar 08, 2011 09:55 PM

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Because I'm a teacher I decided to get married in the summer. I didn't want to try to plan my wedding or honeymoon around a 1 week break during the school year. We picked July 20th because I'm a city teacher and we end so much later and I will have time in between packing up my classroom, planning for last min wedding stuff and packing for a honeymoon that I won't get too stressed.

1112bride Posted: Mar 08, 2011 10:52 PM

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Future teacher here! We are getting married the week before Thanksgiving 2012, so I figured I would just take off Monday-Wednesday, and have a whole week off. I will definitely use personal days to take off. I really don't care, if I'm entitled to days off, then I will use them as I see fit!

mara1017 Posted: Mar 09, 2011 05:58 AM

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1112bride...just be careful before you make plans to take those three days off...teacher contracts are very specific about what personal days can be used for. I have never seen a contract that allows for honeymoon (I am a school lawyer). You don't want to loose a job just to have a honeymoon I would think.

Just a heads up...

midnight26 Posted: Mar 09, 2011 06:14 AM

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Posted by 1112bride

Future teacher here! We are getting married the week before Thanksgiving 2012, so I figured I would just take off Monday-Wednesday, and have a whole week off. I will definitely use personal days to take off. I really don't care, if I'm entitled to days off, then I will use them as I see fit!

like Mara said, just be careful, because I see you said 'future' teacher....so that means next year will be your first year?

you only get usually 2 personal days a year, and you don't have to disclose the reason, hence 'personal', but when they do your first year evaluations they put down how many days you took off, when, etc. one day here or there, fine...but first year I wouldnt even take a sick day!

HersheyKiss727 Posted: Mar 09, 2011 06:24 AM

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This is why we are getting married in July. We are both teachers and it would be too stressful to try and plan around a one week vacation. Especially since we would like to go to Hawaii for at least 10 days! But I also work with a few ladies who have gotten married during the school year and either waited for a vacation or summer to take their honeymoon!

mara1017 Posted: Mar 09, 2011 06:48 AM

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And whether you have to disclose or not depends on the district. A lot of my districts have a form thAt has to be filled out and the personal days can only be used for certain things. If caught using for other reasons a nontenured teacher could be let go

1112bride Posted: Mar 09, 2011 08:11 AM

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Thanks for the heads up. From what I understood, in NYC schools, you accumulate 1 sick day a month. Like when you are on 'maternity leave', since there's no actual maternity leave, the time you take off is taken away from your sick days, and you're not actually ''sick''.

What's up with teachers not having maternity leave anyway? I know it's totally off topic, but it just pisses me off, because MOST teacher are women. What gives?