Need a job? Try the Philadelphia School District. More than 200 teachers have either quit, taken sick leave or just decided not to show up to work.
"In some ways I'm dismayed at the fact that professionals would not think of the impact of their actions on children," Superintendent Arlene Ackerman told the Philadelphia Daily News. Ackerman -- the woman who hires and fires -- is so ticked off she wants to make sure no-show teachers never work in her district again.
"Even if I'm not here in five years, they still can't work here," Personnel Chief Estelle Matthews told the paper.
The district sent a letter to teachers who haven't shown up to get ready for the start of school next Tuesday to let them know their names are all being sent to the state Department of Education to be reviewed.
Matthews says she has a plan in place to fill the 38 vacant positions the district's left with now. And she has hundreds of other resumes to go over.
"We're determined that we're going to fill every job" by the time school starts Matthews said.
The district started the hiring process a couple of months early this year. Ackerman seems to think the after getting early contracts, some teachers went out and found other jobs and didn't care enough to give notice.
The anger, accusations and assumptions being made by school administrators are a "punch below the belt" a union spokesman tells the Daily New. Overall, the numbers are not as bad as they look or sound, considering there are about 11,000 teachers employed by the district.
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