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AFT Resolution

AID FOR THE CLASSROOM TEACHER

WHEREAS, the use of paraprofessionals is becoming recognized in many of this nation's schools as a valuable supplementary and complementary force for this nation's teachers:

RESOLVED, that teachers should be offered the services of paraprofessionals; and

RESOLVED, that the responsibility of paraprofessionals is to assist teachers by performing functions which are assigned and directed by these teachers, without infringing upon the professional responsibilities reserved for certificated teachers.

(1968)

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