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Teachers' contracts
By Julianne

For years teachers have put up with situations like the one you have. I first started teaching in 1976. I had a "right" to 15 minutes at lunch time to eat and use the bathroom. There was no paid planning time, no limits
on faculty meetings, no classroom aides, very low pay, few benefits, huge class loads. Anyway, the point is, it took 25 years of work by the teachers' unions to make headway into these poor working conditions. You can't fix this one over night. What you can do is support your union in their efforts to make this kind of thing a contractual matter. Then hold your board of education to

the letter of the contract. Things are much better for us now in my district. Our obligations are spelled out with very little wiggle room for over zealous administrators with pet projects they want teachers to work on. Good luck to you in this. Let us know if there's any headway.