Teacher Says: Hours Worked

Cindy Shapiro
14 min readMar 24, 2021
Photo by Ocean Ng on Unsplash

Recently, a group of teachers at Mandalay Middle, a school located in the suburbs of Denver, CO, declared that they would only work contract hours. It was a form of protest, meant to highlight the lack of teacher say in decision-making by higher ups on issues like working conditions under COVID-19 and in support of bargaining.

Pictures on Facebook showed a group of 15–20 teachers standing outside of the school…

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Cindy Shapiro

Cindy Shapiro is long-time teacher living in Colorado. As a writer, she aims to elevate teachers’ voices and provide insight on issues in education.