Children Today

nena10

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I have decided to do a new thread about children since I've seen on another about how children are becoming in this age. Here is a question? What are substitue teachers supposed to do? Are they just supposed to sit in a classroom and read their magazines or their papers? Or tend to children. I am asking this because when I was in the eighth grade, I was in an english class with some other children. The sub sat in her chair and was reading a book. Did the kids the work? no. They spent the entire hour throwing things out the windows, throwing spit balls at the chalkboard, and other things. The sub did't realize what was going on until it was almost time for class to end. When she saw all those wads of paper on the board and on the desk, she went to get the principal. He had the entire class held over until the students confessed. I, a 14 year old, couldn't say anything about the sub. I didn't know better then. Now I do.
 

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As a teacher, I'll tell you that I think substitute teaching is one of the hardest jobs in the world. Even a regular classroom teacher has to be very consistent to maintain good discipline in the classroom. A sub is fair game for kids, who will take any advantage they can get. The best subs I've seen come armed with their own bag of tricks to maintain order for the day. The other reason there are so many ineffective substitutes is that the qualifications are practically zero these days.

Having a substitute is kind of like renting a car: you beat the hell out of it. It isn't yours anyway.
 

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Having a substitute is kind of like renting a car: you beat the hell out of it. It isn't yours anyway




me--- :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:


that was hilarious Deb25!!
 

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Air:

Good. I met my quota and made one person laugh today.
 
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