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Teacher asks school board to reevaluate sick‑leave bank to cover immediate family illness
Summary
A fourth-grade teacher who recently lost her daughter to cancer urged the King George County School Board to consider allowing employees to draw from the district’s sick‑leave bank for serious immediate‑family illnesses, saying current rules restrict use to the employee’s own illness.
Alexandra Devine, a fourth‑grade teacher at Sealson Elementary School, told the school board she lost her daughter after an eight‑year battle with breast cancer and asked the board to “evaluate the sick leave bank for employees in the school system.”
“I’m coming before you to ask for you to evaluate the sick leave bank for employees in the school system,” Alexandra Devine said, describing a long…
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