So that's how it is

[danoconnor249]

So I called out sick from work last night so that I could go to the doctor today, and my principal said, "Bring back a doctor's note." And I don't know how to take that. Does he mean that he just wants to have all his ducks in a row, and he doesn't want to show favoritism by asking one teacher for a note when he suspects they're lying and not

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[kepharel]

you should totally be a school administrator. and i hope you are just getting a checkup or something and that you aren't really sick. if you are, well, i hope you get better. *hugs*

[legwork]

If you were an administrator, you could ask teachers for notes from doctors whenever they are sick.
Really, though, the principal should either ask everybody or ask nobody for doctors' notes, or apply some consistent, uniform and well-understood criterion. Sometime in his career, somebody will turn into a slacker, and if he's been inconsistent in details like this, it will take an extra two or three years to cure the slacker.
New York is like that.

[buschap]

Will you get detention if you don't?

[tjfourth]

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[satyagraha101]

in the event that he's not lying, it might be that there is some policy where teachers have to provide doctors' notes. maybe it's so that the school can have a record of why they paid a substitute that day, or just becomes some policymaker loves the trappings of bureaucracy. or maybe if you have a certain number of unxcused absences as a teacher you go up for review or something. but it would make sense to me that they would have little rules like that for teachers as well as students.