I am a (primary) class teacher in a job share. My contract is 0.6 so I work 3 days a week. We have parents' evenings coming up later this term. One of them is on a day I usually work, the other isn't. In my previous school, job-share teachers split the parents' evenings so each teacher did the parents' meetings on the day when they usually worked. At my current school, both teachers are expected to attend. I don't have a problem with this, but I do have a childcare issue as the meetings take place on a day when I don't have existing childcare arrangements. I had hoped to get a family member to come up and babysit but unfortunately they're not available. DH is also a teacher, so wouldn't be able to get back from work in time and won't be allowed to take time off.
DC1 would have to go to after-school club (£15) and I would have to book an extra half-day at nursery for DC2 (about £25). I don't know whether I can expect to claim for the additional hours I'm working or if I'm just expected to attend the meeting on the additional day without pay. At the very least, WIBU to ask them to pay me enough to cover my childcare costs so I'm not out of pocket? What do other part-time teachers do?
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GraceGrape · 21/09/2016 22:22
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