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Policy JHFAA
Building And/Or Playground Duties
Each school shall have a definite schedule of building and/or playground duties which must be followed faithfully. Duties are a part of a teacher’s total responsibility. Teachers may be liable for a charge of negligence if they fail to fulfill any part of their duties. Personal telephone calls, general conversations, etc., shall not prevent a teacher from carrying out assigned duties except when permission has been granted by the building principal or the principal’s designee and a replacement has been assigned to cover the duty area.
It shall be the responsibility of the building principal to design the schedule, inform the teachers of their assignments and to see that the schedule is posted where it is available to all teachers.
The duty schedule must fit the needs of the individual school for which it is designed. However, all schedules shall include the following points:
Opening of each session: Teachers shall report for duty no less than fifteen minutes before the opening of each session; one or more elementary teachers shall be on the playground duty at each school and shall give special attention to the traffic and playground hazards as students arrive at the school.
Dismissal of each session: All areas identified as needing supervision are to be covered.
Recess or breaks: All recess or breaks (i.e. basement) periods are to be properly supervised.
Revised: April 8, 1974
Revised: December 8, 1975