when we presented this analysis or with it we have showed that if you are to go beyond on the basis of action which you need not do but if you parse the statute and closely examine the definition of all the words that are relevant to this issue the statute syntax wire and they also later said that the only thing plaintiff did not get was present use of the fact that does this mean that the twenty eight point five days went into or sick bank for the pregnancy and she gets paid for determination of  usual work specter place is worse off also used in conjunction with the word leave a manner that's similar to the common phrase leave of absence which is to been defined as temporary absence from employment duty with the intention to return during which time renumer expected to be work in the legislators making clear that the period issue here is work and school days it also uses the language as a basis for pe again reading course in the notion that but we are concerned with is that employee is paid for the day that there are present won't work that's long been the school district positions case and if you look at the record it clearly establishes that for instance attached to the complaint the complaint is exhibit four as a festering there's a there's a letter from my partner  reach any point in support of the judgement on appeal even though not directly ruled on by the truck or so long as the factual basis for such a point was before the trial and that was here in this case if you look at the complaint in the complaint and the exhibits attached to  does not need to be connected to the back of the child her her interpretation however would require this court to abandon several of its longstanding rules regarding statutory construction and permitted sick leave  her to be used in an entirely different manner than the other paul flying events set forth in section twenty four says it would also fly in the face of this court has determined what sick leave actually in some the point the plain language of the statute does not support her interpretation and it will be to observe result by contrast the school district's argument in this case as i just said is that sick leave must be used at a time when employees aren't able we don't know because it's arbitrary under that  and i disagree with the notion that her should be treated as family just what the appellate court did was say there are two distinct categories personal list serious illness quarantine at home or her adoption place for think it i think it's to the more reasonable interpretation is that it's tied to either care for the child with the mother immediately upon the event because there's there's nothing stopping and i think the question was posed to mr toma stacking the leak where this is far beyond when the birth it could be used six months later there's no let mr thomas said there's no time poor restriction so a father could come into work a year later and say i'm a stay home with my child for thirty were under their drug if you untether it from the event the situations are almost and because the school district would be on its heels having to i'd like to address the context of that because throughout this litigation we've heard from mr dynamic that the language says thirty days from birth is a right that's not what this language actually doctor's note as a basis for pay during leave after an absence of thirty dollars days for work that context here is critical what the legislature did was simply a longer absence period of thirty days from birth before a doctor's note could be required to justify the use of paid sick leave for day thirty one and all subsequent actions but that language is connected with personal and this dynamic does not want to talk about that that piece of this and it's because to interpret the stack the way she does with respect to her you also have to interpret the statute with respect the person on the same way and that's where you get absurd results because just change the fact if this dynamic were on the last days and this statute says three days for personal ones under that interpretation she could come back and say i didn't get to use my ph for personal because that's what she's doing with respect to work and that's one of the search results and far from putting her in the the i think one of the issues which is i have this you seem to be arguing this is called sick leave church and so the idea of some kind of physical illness is at play here but in the same long sentence that we're talking defined in the sense that it makes clear that the adoption or placement for adoption must be under way the district can require evidence that it's under way but it's not has nothing to do with being sick correct i don't think there's i don't think that there's any i don't think you can make that i think you're correct on that point but i do think that that language makes clear that the sick leave use for that or that has to be tied to that is that what this dynamic is proposing is that for her it does need to be connected to the here and the act of coming forward on the mother because if you just change the facts here and pushed her back by several months and then she wanted to use it for that her ten weeks later which is what she's doing here it's not her birthday it's not tethered to the event because if she could take it ten weeks later at that point what's stopping her from taking it ten is no different from saying i want to use the data over the years were two years and that's where the absurdity of that argument could actually result the position is that it doesn't have to use can say now that that's what mr dianne did she wanted to come back the st word day the following school year but there's nothing in their argument that suggests that you have to use these days consecutively as mr combs said it just says for work we've long argued that under that interpretation you could theoretically use one day a week for thirty weeks there's nothing in the statute that would prohibit is arguably in a better position for having given birth when she she didn't have to use any of her sick and she got to bond with her child for ten weeks following that attack before having to come back to work and to the extent she was somehow treated differently she's arguably in a better spot than a teacher who had to use i'd like to go back to look to the language of the statute because i think it's important to have the legislature intended to provide thirty days for family just it would not have granted such a benefit in the midst of language speaking to a school district's ability to require medical certification which obviously he relates to illness rinker past family or judge family adjustment body doesn't really tell the story as but this is what the statu and when the statute addresses things that aren't related to incapacity it spells out that we have the ability to make sure that it's under way so it's not abuse so there's so there's not an observ right and in that example you just gave i think you would discount those two weeks they're not worth it so if you dread twenty work twenty work days following that break to you that's a consistent to st and again that that's right poor observed result of because under that example you just gave your honor if a geezer was still on that friday and there was a long weekend and they didn't get to use those three days it's inconceivable for someone to come back to your wednesday to look i was sick over the weekend i didn't get all my  within six weeks of the birth correct ok i'm immediately upon the event of birth is when the is when the clock starts running t used to use those days just like you would for any of the other her sick leave between thanksgiving and christmas i think if there was an explanation about why she had to later use of leave perhaps her husband be take sick leave for her but only do so at a certain time and then she was going to a mini continue to care for the did i but i don't think that that that would be tied to her i also think that those type of hypotheticals sort of embody a sort of unnecessary cynicism about public schoolboys and really what it's assuming is that do you agree the new with the mortgage council that you follow your interpretation the teacher could use the sick leave one day a week for the early weeks i don't see how that as unlikely yes because i don't know how you would argue that that leaves for work i don't think section twenty four says on its face or us being us then to set a temporal limit of what for birth means or we whatever we