2020-05-06 02:10:34 -0400
To: North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, Leaders of the State Legislature
North Carolina Substitute Teachers Need To Be Paid During The Pandemic
North Carolina Statute 96-15.01(d) prohibits local school districts from paying anything to substitute teachers as they pay the salaries to all other school employees during the pandemic. North Carolina Substitute Teachers have been there when the school districts needed us and now we need them to help us get through a terrible financial disaster. We are calling on the Governor and State legislative leaders to relax this statute during this pandemic. We are also asking our sub pay to be raised to $100 a day and the statute be rewritten to let us have an alternative tax plan with better guidance on health insurance options plus professional training. This is not 1960. This is 2020 and many issues need to be reviewed. Don't let us down.
Why is this important?
Substitute Teachers make up a very important segment of the states schools workforce. If substitutes stop working school districts will eventually be paralyzed trying to fill the gap. Sub Teachers should have the right to write off things like gas, lunches, supplies and insurance. Those rights are being denied because instead of paying on a 1099-Misc that allows those deductions they pay on a W2 effectively telling the IRS we are employees when they continually tell us we're not. The hypocrisy must end!