With three (3) days’ notice to the principal and Superintendent, and subject to the availability of a suitable substitute teacher, teachers will be granted two (2) days of personal leave per year at no cost to the teacher. In cases of emergency, the three (3) day request may be waived.
Teachers will not take this leave on any day of the 10 days for teacher in-service, parent-teacher conferences, administration and pupil evaluation.
Additional leave may be granted with the approval of the principal and Superintendent at a deduction of 1/N (where N represents the number of school days in the current school year) of the teacher's annual salary for each day of leave taken.
Up to one unused personal day may be carried forward to the following school year.
The maximum leave taken under Article 4.04 when combined with extra-curricular leave under Article 19 shall be no more than 5 days at any one time per school year.