[CALIBK12] Teacher accountability

[Megan Fuller]

Lori's question about barcoding teacher materials made me wonder, is there any ed code, rule, or policy regarding teacher accountability for the loss of materials?  
 
In my district, unless a teacher has some sort of inner voice that says, "It is right to pay for things you lose." (We used to call it a "concience") we do not get replacement funds.  I have one teacher, retiring this year, who has lost nearly $3000.00 worth of materials, including a loptop, library books, and classroom sets of textbooks, from her classroom over the past eight years.   This year, I handed a complete, brand new, teacher set of science materials, to a new teacher who sharing a 1/2 year contract.  When he left at the semester, he returned only the Teacher's Edition, having mislaid the entire bankers box of CD's, & assessments etc....Oh well, too bad for the teacher that he's sharing the contract with.  
Do your districts also count this as the cost of doing business, or do they charge the teachers?  
Megan Fuller Aptos Junior High http://www.aptosjr.pvusd.net/library/ Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun 
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