I was excited to get a half day call for a north end school today. While waiting for the office manager and signing in I met another substitute who told me that the class i was going into was difficult. In fact, in the past a sub actually left at noon when hired for a full day.
Great.
I took a deep breath and headed to the classroom where I met with the teacher. She gave me instructions on what she wanted me to do but was so scattered I realized I would be winging it. Thankfully she printed out a copy of the sub plans....oh wait those were so sparse they were no help at all.
On accident, I arrived at the lunchroom a few minutes too early and got to hear that my class was being so rude they lost pm recess. I no longer had that to hold over their heads. AND I now had 15-20 minutes extra that I needed to fill with no tools.
They lost tomorrow's recess in the first half hour.
They lost the movie (oh, yes part of my sub plans was a movie) shortly after that.
We tried to work on the Social Studies worksheet she gave us. The questions were pretty straight forward but the answers were nowhere in the book. I couldn't even find them. Of course they are going to act up if they can't do the work! So we gave up on it and I did some read aloud.
During the science packet I was watching the clock. I was running out of things to do!! The kids were surprisingly engaged (at least two were kicked out though). I told them if they could continue this behavior then they could earn back the movie time. Little did they know that I had no other option!
No one watched the movie. They were talking, writing notes, throwing things, being jerks.... I told three students their job the next day was to clean the floors. Lord I hope the janitor doesn't come in and clean for them. It was DISGUSTING!
Finally, my 3 hours of these knuckleheads was over. Most of the kids had left. I looked over and not five feet away from me one was writing on the desk with a marker. Guess whose job it is to wash the desks tomorrow?
And how much do you want to bet that teacher won't follow through with the consequences I gave them?
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