Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Teachers Cut Class To Extend Holiday--Oh, Yeah?

I was surprised to see today's headline about teachers' cutting classes, but I thought "cut" could have more than one implication.  However, the sentence following said that 600 teachers cut classes to extend their holiday.  How do they know that was the reason?  I could see why they might say, "possibly to extend their holiday."  But statistically it didn't look good.  On any day about 7% of the teachers are absent.  On Fridays about 9%.  But yesterday 12% of teachers called in ill or had a family emergency or some such thing.

Strange when this is the first Wednesday since I started first grade that we've had Wednesday off!

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