You might be interested to know how your Australian colleagues cover this issue,
particularly as
every school has at least one 15 minute recess break and one 45-60 minute lunch
break. We are just
rostered on playground duty, with the proviso negotiated by the Union, that we each
have at least a
30-min student free lunch break each day. The number of duties each weeks depends
on the size of
the school and the number of kids within it. You can be on every day.
In many schools, particularly primary, the classroom teacher supervises the
children eating for ten
minutes and then the play break is covered by teachers roaming specific parts of
the playground. All
the children are encouraged to be outside playing getting fresh air and exercise.
It's just a part
of the job here, always has been and probably always will be.
In some schools, the library is open at recess and lunch and there has been some
sort of negotiated
solution to when the break is taken, but I had my library open Mon-Thurs at lunch
only. Friday was
my day to touch base with the rest of the staff.
I can't imagine ever working for a principal who made such unreasonable demands as
those described
by the original sender, and I don't think my colleagues would allow such a
situation to happen
either. Union or not, you cannot give quality service to anyone in those conditions.
Barbara
Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
COOMA NSW 2630
AUSTRALIA
E. barbara.288@bigpond.com
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