teacher absense due to sickness policy: be away for the whole damn year even though you only got a slight fever (0.0000000000001 farenheight too high) we don't give a shit and we still pay you as normal and somebody else does ALL the work for you; student absense due to sickness policy: oh you have stage 4 cancer you stay back for one day while work piles up faster then bills also you need a doctors note if your gone for one day and that only lasts a week before you HAVE to go back even if you still have stage 4 cancer