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Our teachers have several planning times each day w/o students, bet yours do
too, but
does any one of us get any planning time? Maybe you can call the last 5 days
your planning time...

Sandy in Florida
Media Specialist, Mulberry Middle School
afn11720@afn.org

On Wed, 12 May 1999, Suzanne Weinheimer wrote:

> >It also seems relatively inequitable when one considers the incredible work
> > required from classroom teachers to wrap up their school year..."
>
>  However, teachers often use their students to clean up, pack up, take
> down bulletin boards, etc.
>
> Just some thoughts:
>
>  Are the teachers required to maintain/reconcile an inventory of items
> located throughout the school [referring of course to AV and other
> equipment]?
>
>  Do teachers have to call parents of those (often) hundreds of kids who
> have overdue books?
>
> Are teachers responsible for repairing all the textbooks, etc, in their
> classroom?
>
> Etc. etc. etc.
>
>  Of course, I'm not knocking teachers, just the administrators thinking.
> In my school, for the past 3 summers, my tech aide has had to box up
> every computer in the lab and library (more than 20). Supposedly this was
> to prevent theft by workers/people in the building. My tech aide and I
> wondered, what better way to ENCOURAGE theft, by having everything one
> needed to run the computer all boxed up and ready to go! All cables, etc,
> were contained in a nice large box with the monitor and CPU. The boxes
> even had handles and were numbered.
>
>  We have new locks on the doors this year, (as well as new computers) so
> it could go either way this year.
>
>  Suzanne Weinheimer, Librarian
> South Orange/Maplewood S.D.
> NewJersey
> suzanne@whatexit.com
>
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