WWYD? Frequent absence  (26 Posts) notnowImreading Wed 06-Mar-13
21:42:18  Line managers, help!  I'm in a quandary. My new-this-
year second in department is frequently off sick. She has had a
period of absence every month since starting at the school,
mostly for things like coughs/colds, although one bit was when
her little girl was taken into hospital.  Each time she is off I
think, well, fair enough, she's ill, nothing makes you feel as
rough as a bad cold etc. However, it's really starting to have
an impact on the classes she teaches and it's bad luck that one
of the reasons she got the job is that she is strong with the
stroppy lower ability boys, so you can imagine how well they
respond to a string of cover supervisors and cover lesson tasks.
I don't know what to do/whether to do anything at all. I have no
reason to suspect that she's malingering, although I do have the
feeling (no more than that) that she should woman up a bit with
the colds. I know that you can't help being ill sometimes but
EVERYONE