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During cafeteria lunch duty, a guidance counselor runs a foosball tournament, attracting a throng of laughing, shouting boys.
It also ensures that lunch duty does not compete with more important responsibilites, like teachers' joint curriculum planning.
Assistant teachers work with students on reading and writing, help with class projects and sometimes do lunch duty or bathroom patrol, depending on the school.
But at some moments of the day, her identities collide; while on lunch duty, she often catches herself shadow boxing while sparring in her head.
Stress is what I was under when I started as a head in 1985, in the context of widespread industrial action – teachers walking out of class at a moment's notice – doing lunch duty on my own every day for three years because of colleagues who worked to rule".
"Stress is what I was under when I started as a head in 1985, in the context of widespread industrial action - teachers walking out of class at a moment's notice; doing lunch duty on my own every day for three years because of colleagues who worked to rule; covering five classes in the sports hall when there was no-one to teach them.
"High schools in New York City are organized on a semester basis, so for one semester I taught five periods and did lunch duty.
When counselors are asked to serve as last-minute substitute teachers, plan the school-wide testing program, or take a double shift of lunch duty, what little time they have for students is gone, and that includes time for college planning.
Make sure the teachers on lunch duty don't catch you.
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On another occasion, I was "written up" because I refused to do lunch patrol duty with a security guard who was physically abusing students and was later fired.
Kids across the country are about to head back to school which means parents are about to resume lunch-packing duty.
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