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Re: Plan Time

From: San D Hasselman (kprs)
Date: Sun Jun 25 2000 - 20:24:03 PDT

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    Just to add to the discussion about 'planning time' and 'teaching periods'.
    There was a time in my life that 'non academic' teachers taught 6 periods out of
    a 7 period day (in my high school district), and while they didn't have a 'duty
    period' (i.e. bathroom patrol, lunch duty, computer lab duty), they did have to
    teach a period instead. After much lobbying and reteaching our union leaders,
    we convinced them that our diplomas were not pink, but the same color as the
    'academic' teachers, and we were not second class citizens, and wanted the same
    rights as everyone. So in the next contract it was all or nothing, in other
    words we ALL taught 5 periods or no deal. We, the non academic teachers, had to
    educate our colleages, and union leaders to what we EXACTLY did, because somehow
    the story was that we didn't work as hard as the academic teachers
    did...hmmmmmm. This myth as been perpectuated by the same people who think that
    gym teachers have it easy as well. Personally I tell everyone who believes in
    THAT one, that I wouldn't be a gym teacher if they paid me...the responsibility
    for a student's physical well being, as well as having to teach health, would be
    WAY too much for me!! (I faint when I have to take my cat to the VET, I probably
    would faint if someone got hit in the head with a volleyball).

    My point?> If you don't have a planning period and everyone else does...EDUCATE
    EVERYONE ABOUT WHAT YOU DO, BREAK THE MYTHS THAT THEY HAVE DEVELOPED ABOUT YOUR
    JOB. If you don't blow your own horn, and support what you do...who will??

    San D 

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