Time By Bonnie gr. 2

We have to be in school 10 minutes before the kids. We have 5 40 minute professional periods per week. We have to stay 30 minutes after the kids, every day except Friday or before a vacation. We have a faculty meeting

or two after school each month. Grrades 3-5 have Spanish twice a week for twenty minutes but it is not a prep, they are supposed to stay in the room. We used to have French in 1 and 2 but that was eliminated this year. Also not a prep. But we would often use it to go the bathroom. We also have a 50 inutes duty free lunch for most of us. We have two teachers who get paid to do it daily.

In buildings with no volunteers, they rotate lunch duty. Each teacher had it for 25 minutes.

Things have changed over the years. When I started, the contract said we would have prep time equal to the time the students had specials. There was a year when we had severe financial problems and there was talk of eliminating anything not mandated by the state. Gym/physical activity is mandated but it doesn't have to be taught by a specialist. We have since strenghtened the language so the time is guaranteed. it started at four periods per week and is now 5. Most people have a prep a day, except my grade level partner who has two one day and nothing on Friday. We used to have to do lunch on a rotating basis for the entire period. We fought that. Some days you had no prep and lunch duty the whole period. So when did one go to the bathroom?

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