[pfflier]

Kids play "get the sub" to entertain themselves. If any of my subs ever told me any of my students tried that, I would have the offender and the whole class write a letter of apology to the sub. The offender for being an a$$ and the rest of the class for letting them get away with it.

When and if I could get the sub to come back, the letter(s) were delivered personally to them. It happened but only once or twice in 16 years.

[gundog]

I heard about a female sub at my high school that assigned in-class reading, and then started knitting. Someone would eventually start screwing around, and she’d knit a little faster. That’s sll she did, so it became a game to see how fast the class could make her knit.

[Leaning Right]

> Kids play “get the sub” to entertain themselves. <

That’s true. It’s a form of bullying. As I noted earlier, I was an urban school teacher for decades. And we had this one sub, an older lady who spoke with an accent. Many students gave her a hard time. That happened because our administrators simply didn’t care enough to enforce basic classroom rules.

It was only after I read her obituary in the newspaper that I learned she was a survivor of Auschwitz. If those students only had some idea of the horrors she went through…

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Kids play “get the sub” to entertain themselves.

Yeah, that backfired on us once. We had a sub for German class, a very nice older lady with a German accent. So we all switched names. Had a good time with it. Then a few weeks later our pregnant teacher had problems with her baby and had to take her leave early, and they brought the nice German lady in as our teacher for the rest of the year. Poor thing never could get our names straight, even after we admitted what we had done.