ARTICLE 12 NON-INSTRUCTIONAL DUTIES

Bristol Warren School District

A. The Committee and the Association acknowledge that a teacher's primary responsibility is to teach and that his or her energies should be utilized to this end. The Committee will reduce non-teaching duties according to guidelines set forth by the Department of Education. Therefore, the Committee agrees to extend its present program pertaining to school aides so that teachers will not be required to perform the following duties:

1. Non-instructional assignments, including, but not limited to, milk distribution, supervision of cafeterias, buses, lavatories, corridor duty, supervision of classroom aide(s) except for the minimum necessary for the health and safety of the students.

2. Health services, such as administering eye or ear examinations and weighing and measuring pupils except where directly related to area of teaching.

3. Collecting money from students.

4. Delivering of books to classrooms, preparing textbook inventories, duplicating instructional and other materials when done on a school-wide basis. However, in direct classroom work, the teachers will still retain responsibility for books and materials assigned to that particular class.

5. Preparing materials for publication in school newspapers.

6. Arranging for his or her own substitute.

7. Teachers shall not be required to supervise general detention classes.

8. Teachers shall not be required to perform cafeteria or corridor supervision duties.