Sick days aren't for the benefit of the person who's sick, you ignorant Tennessee fucks; they're for stopping them from getting everybody else sick too. Excused absences from school and sick leave from work exist because not having them makes makes the attendance even worse in the long run!
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I hope some parents sus the fuck out that board. Fuck that school district.
in an apparent attempt to prepare them for the workplace.
Doctors literally issue sick notes for employers, too.
On the one hand, I am in favor of eliminating the dependence on doctor's notes because it's just a waste of everyone's time (if someone says they're sick, just believe them and leave it at that). But to say that being sick is not an excuse for being absent is so many levels of mind-bogglingly dumb, I don't even know where to begin.
For some people, getting a doctor’s note involves spending money for it because they don’t have medical insurance.
Well luckily now it doesn't matter, you're coming to work with tuberculosis no matter whether you can afford a doctor or not.
I'm curious how long it's going to take to kill off the entire state of Tennessee through treatable disease. Because that's the obvious end point of this policy.
This is honestly rarely the case because most sick outs are for short term illnesses people rarely seek treatment for and primary care rarely has capacity to see anyone same day.
Meanwhile urgent care is expensive and could entail driving to and waiting hours to spend over $100. Nearly as arduous as going to work with the inverse effect on your bank balance. People aren't doing this.
It's most common to have a certain number of occurrences that are acceptable regardless of cause and to get a doctors note for a condition if it an ongoing issue will cause you to continually miss too many days
How to make everyone sick in one easy step.
More broadly, there's a cultural problem where coming to school/work/etc... with a contagious disease is seen as virtuous toughness instead of immoral endangerment. I thought the coronavirus pandemic would change this attitude, but evidently not.
This is how to breed a new pandemic in one easy step. Schools are already enormous vectors for diseases.
It's in a very red area. They probably didn't believe it was real, while simultaneously injecting bleach and horse dewormer to cure themselves.
So many levels of fucked up in this. Holy shit.
Lawrence county sits up against Giles county. Which has Pulaski in it. Basically a 15 minute drive.
Pulaski is where the KKK was founded.
I found myself living in Maury county these last few years, so it's been interesting to see the legislation that passes around here.
Man I can kind of almost read that map. Could you make it a little bit blurrier?
No problem fam
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I like how he tilt-shifted it instead of blurring it uniformly. He's got some style.
Next year's headline: Tennessee teacher sick days at highest rate in country. District accuses them of illegal strike action.
forced to work in small classrooms with sniffling sick kids legally required to attend would put some teachers' illnesses under workers' comp?
You must be conditioned to work and give 100% at all times, non stop, so that your billionaire leaders can make more money!
I couldn't make it to school yesterday because I had truancy court.
"We need to git these wimpy kids toughened up ASAP! Those crops aren't gonna pick themselves!" https://lemmy.world/post/33547348
I thought great, which school requires a doctor's note for being sick anyways. Oh my have I been wrong apparently.