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Old 10-01-2012, 01:06 PM   #9
Erick Estrada
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Originally Posted by Ashartus View Post
Attendance is mandatory and a teacher could get in a lot of trouble for skipping one without a good reason. Like any other regulated profession teachers have to have a certain number of professional development hours per year to remain licensed. From what I've heard (my wife is a teacher and I know several others) they generally involve workshops, planning meetings, and sometimes team-building exercises; the quality varies from school to school depending on the administration.
Yeah when they have seminars downtown teachers simply can't skip out. My wife takes a lot of weekend workshops as well and generally works a lot harder than I do for her paycheck.
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