AIBU time off work ill

[Wedonttalk]

Changed username.
Teacher so setting work is more work then going in. I have an awfully sore throat and crackly ear. Second day off and struggling to get a doctor's appointment to check. Worried about absence as I've had to take time off for my kids having Covid. Since Jan I've had three days off with kids and this is fourth for me.

girlmom21
I introduced some ready-made cover lessons when I got to a position to have more say and convinced staff it was worth everyone adding a couple of cover lessons to their schemes of work in order to help everyone out.
Most people got on board, but there's always some who won't.

@Wedonttalk

I can't hear out of my ear. I feel shattered and drifting in and out of sleep with a temperature. A day in the classroom would be too much.

Ah. I was going by you saying that you just had a sore throat and a crackly ear. If you have a temperature and are whole body ill, as I said in my post, that's a different thing.

[quote girlmom21]@LolaSmiles it's batshit that you have to sort your own cover work - I've always thought that. There should be something generic and even off-curriculum if necessary that anyone can pick up and get on with. [/quote]
I doubt you'd appreciate that if your child was in an exam class.

@saraclara When I was at school we had two permanent cover teachers who were employed by the school. One was a qualified dance teacher. I can't remember what the other one did. There was no point them covering a maths or science lesson put together by another teacher - who realistically should be in bed getting better.

No wonder teachers are constantly leaving the profession. They're not superhuman. They can't be expected to turn up all day every day for the whole of their 45 year career.

I'd probably cope with being in an office type role. But my energy is zapped for standing up in front of 5 classes of 32 kids.