NEA-Goodland v. Board of Education

Brazil, J.:

NEA-Goodland and Cheryl Mickey appeal from a Sherman County District Court ruling (1) that noon hallway duty and noon recess duty are incidental to the teacher’s primary contract and may be assigned arbitrarily by the school district and (2) that the 1987-88 negotiated agreement between NEA Goodland and U.S.D. No. 352 relates solely to lunchroom duties. We affirm.

The lunch break at Central Elementary consists of a twenty-minute period in which the children eat followed by twenty minutes of noon recess. In June 1987, Mickey wrote the principal of Central Elementary to inform him…