1. Upon appointment to ongoing continuous service beginning the 1997-98 school year, teachers with two (2) years of continuous service under a Limited Teacher-General contract shall be granted a permanent contract.
2. The division shall not employ more teachers under Limited Teacher-General contract than there are teachers on leaves of absence.
3. A teacher who has been employed by the division under a Limited Teacher-General contract and who subsequently is employed under a Teacher-General contract pursuant to 1. above, shall be deemed to have been employed under a Teacher-General contract since the commencement of his/her duties under a Limited Teacher-General contract and shall be entitled retroactively to all benefits arising therefrom.