Video of Chicago teachers being treated like children in meeting. It's humiliating.

[kmlisle]

18. This is the kind of professional development I called in sick for

Only I would call in sick and then come in to catch up on my work in the classroom. Someone finally pointed out that I could have stayed home, but one of the most frustrating things about this kind of PD is that you are sitting there listening to a useless high priced speaker when you desperately need time to grade papers and work in your room on planning and for me setting up and taking down experiments since I taught science.

My tactic caught on at my school with folks like me who had lots of sick leave. Luckily although our administrators knew what we were doing, they never called us on it - I think because they were sympathetic.

There was also some wonderful PD in our district and we knew which ones to make sure we did not miss and which ones were total B*%#t and appropriate for a sick day.