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Maternity Leave
By MG

This sounds very familiar to me. I had my son last school year and only had 10 days to use. The rest of my leave was unpaid. The way the people explain it in payroll is that we get paid a daily rate. For example, if you make
35,000 a year and teach 180 school days, you divide to find your daily rate. When you run out of days (after I used my 10) they dock your pay check the daily rate for each day you are out. It is awful!!
I took my 8 weeks leave but only 10 days were paid. I got one tiny paycheck in December (like 200 dollars), then they decided to be "nice" to me and dock the rest of what I owed a

little from each pay check. So, even after I came back to work my checks were like 400 less than normal FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR. I felt like I had gotten a raise in September when I went back to my normal rate of pay.
Does your friend have disability insurance? If so they should pay while she is on leave. I was already pregnant when I went to my district so mine was "preexisting" and disability wouldn't pay. If she was not already pregnant, she should be able to collect.
So, the money is not really to pay for a sub, it is because she is not working her contract days that she is paid for each month. It sure doesn't feel like we make as much as they dock you for though!