Winks v. Board of Education of Normal Community

Initially, we note that the misapplication of the sick leave provisions by the school administration as recited in the principal opinion is not a sound judicial basis for the interpretation of the statute passed by the legislature.

We undertake to construe the language found in section 24 — 6 of the School Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 122, par. 24 — 6):

“Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal illness, quarantine at home, or serious illness or death in the immediate family or household.”

Such was the precise language employed by the legislature in adopting the statute in 1947 (Ill.…