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3. When approved by the Building Principal, arrival and dismissal at all buildings by
the teachers shall be flexible so as to accommodate a variety of different teacher
schedules, so long as each teacher works a full length day.
4. Teachers shall have the right to depart the building immediately after regular student bus
departure on Fridays and the day before holidays.
5. Each building shall have early dismissal the last student day of the academic year, if
permitted by law.
B. Planning and Preparation Time
1. All teachers and guidance counselors shall be granted at least two hundred (200) minutes
of planning and preparation time per week with at least one (1) daily block of no less than
thirty (30) minutes, in addition to lunch as provided in 606/C, below. The schedule may
be adjusted to accommodate assemblies or shortened short days.
2. Elementary/Middle School art, music, and physical education teachers will assist in
supervising building assemblies, if requested of the Administration by teacher(s) during
that time the teacher(s) is(are) scheduled to be on planning time.
C. Lunch
As required by ORC 3319.111, each regular full-time teacher employed by the Board shall be
granted a daily continuous duty-free lunch period, no less than thirty (30) consecutive minutes
in length which shall not be restricted to remaining on school premises. Any teacher leaving the
school during his/her duty-free lunch period must let the office know that he/she is leaving.
The reason need not be given.
D. Required Meetings/In-service
Bargaining unit members required to attend orientation/meetings/ in-service/evening school
events outside of the teacher workday will be paid at Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) per hour not
to exceed Seventy-Five Dollars ($75.00) per meeting. Bargaining unit members will be paid a
minimum of one (1) hour for any such required orientations/meetings/in-service/evening school
events.
E. Calamity Day
When a school(s) is/are closed because of an “Act of God,” inclement weather, hazardous road
conditions, no utilities, etc., teachers will be expected to report to work from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00
p.m., unless there is a county wide level 3 emergency or the teachers are advised by the
Administration not to report to work. Teachers will be required to report for no more than three
(3) calamity days.
607 CLASS SIZE (P.N. 2006)
A. The parties agree that classes in grade levels and subject areas will be kept as equal as is
possible. There shall be no fewer than forty (40) in-class classroom teachers per 1,000 students.
Further, there shall be no fewer than five (5) Education Service Personnel Teachers per 1,000
students. The Administration will make a good faith effort to limit academic class sizes as
follows: Grades K-4, no more than twenty-six (26) students; Grades 5-8, no more than twentyeight
(28) students; Grades 9-12, no more than thirty (30) students, one hundred seventy (170)
students in a given day.
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