Substitute Teaching

[BenKenobi88]

DMeisterJ said:
Substitute teachers get and deserve no respect.

They don't have the qualifications to do the job, and they shouldn't. Just give us our busy work, or put the movie on, and keep it moving.

We really didn't care about them unless they tried to force us to do the work, or tried to get all big and call the administrators. Once they so that, it's on.

Just give them the busy work, and don't crack. If you show weakness, they will own you. But you seem like you can handle yourself on these forums, you should be fine.

This.  In high school, my grade was considered one of the best to hit the school in many years...lots of smart kids and overachievers...we still goofed off when we had a sub though.

I can respect an assistant teacher who has significant education and just needs experience being a teacher...and I will try to respect a substitute, but a substitute generally doesn't know the specifics...they might be smart but usually they don't know what exactly we're learning about.  Their job was usually just hand out homework and keep the class in line.