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<<<< Even when the music teacher takes the whole grade level
 to practice singing for a performance, I am expected to sit in there,
as
 a babysitter. Makes me furious! Because when I have extra time, I
 ACTUALLY PREP for classes! >>

This is the same in our school - can you develop amnesia and stay in
your
room.>>

Well, this year I came up with a new plan. Since I have two planning
periods (due to the fact that our school goes longer than regular
elementary schools... have to share busses with HS in our tiny
district), when the music teacher wanted to take the classes, I just
offered to hold the missed class at the end of the day (their "tutoring
and enrichment" period) and use the regular class period as my prep
time. The asst. principal (who is always lurking around and trying to
"catch" people screwing up) came down and asked me why I wasn't in there
monitoring the kids with the music teacher, I simply explained that in
order to keep to my curriculum, I couldn't afford to miss classes with
these students, so I had flip-flopped the periods. She was dumbfounded
because there was really no way to argue! I was doing what best servved
the students. However, I saw the wheels turning and I'm sure that next
year there will be an announcement regarding our "expected" behavior in
this situation (ie: have to go down and "monitor" <read: babysit> while
they are having play practice).
  One thing I did learn yesterday, though, was that some other art
teacher friends of mine get a "payback" on this: the week of gallery
night they get the music and PE to take all their classes so that they
have lots of time to hang artwork. So next year that may be my
strategy...

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