Personal Illness. For absences caused by illness or physical disability of the teacher or physician appointments during the term of illness, but shall not be utilized for routine, or continuing conditions except where the physician verifies such condition would render the teacher unable to teach, each teacher shall be allowed ten (10) days each year, accumulative without limit. A teacher who teaches less than a full school year shall be credited with a proportional number of sick leave days. In the event a new teacher shall have accumulated three (3) or more sick leave days in a prior school corporation of this state, then after his/her first year of teaching, and upon the signing of his/her second consecutive teaching contract with the Merrillville Community Schools, he/she will be eligible for the regular ten (10) days plus three (3) additional days each succeeding year until his/her previously accumulated sick leave days are exhausted. Summer school teachers shall be entitled to all sick leave rights to which they are normally entitled and have remaining from the preceding school year. Teachers shall be given an accounting of their accumulated sick leave once each year. If a teacher is absent five (5) consecutive school days or longer he/she will specify on the appropriate form the nature of the illness or physical disability. If the personal illness leave use has been frequent or suspicion of abuse exists, the administration may require the submission of a physician's statement certifying illness of the teacher involved. At any time school is canceled, there will not be personal illness days deducted.
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