Thursday evening family and supporters of a South Gwinnett High School teacher will ask the Gwinnett board of Education to change the district’s sick leave policy, so he can stay by the side of his sick wife. Currently, the policy does not allow teachers to donate sick time to fellow educators.
The wife of high school math teacher, Mark Rinehart, was recently stricken with a rare bacterial infection. As a result, Rinehart says 32-year-old Hannah had to have both of her hands and feet amputated.
“It’s not in any way been easy. Sometimes I think I’m going to wake up from it. The comfort I have had in this has been from my faith.”
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