Common use of Blocks Clause in Contracts

Blocks. A. Blocks shall be instituted according to the following criteria in the Guest Teacher Complaint Procedure outlined in Article VIII.: 1. Minor Complaints (Informal level): No blocks shall be instituted. 2. Criteria 1.- 4.: Block at a school site is not automatic, unless the oversight is of a serious or deliberate nature. 3. Criteria 5. - 10.: Block at all school sites is automatic, except in the case of criterion 6, only where it can be demonstrated that the use of physical restraint was necessary to prevent a fight and/or prevent serious physical harm to a student. B. No block at any school site resulting from a complaint under Criteria 1.-4. shall continue for more than twenty (20) days if no investigation of the complaint is being undertaken and no meeting with the guest teacher has been scheduled. C. A guest teacher who has received two blocks as a consequence of complaints, which, upon investigation, shall have been for just cause, shall be placed on probation. A third block for just cause shall result in twenty (20) days suspension from the District’s substitute call list. A fourth block for just cause shall result in the guest teacher’s permanent removal from the District’s substitute list.