[grania]

Yooo...I substituted for seven years. I'm a retiree and like many who substitute preferred not to be in same job -every day environments or have reasons to not work every day. In many neighborhoods, a school cannot function unless it has an excellent pool of substitutes.

I was proud to be a "travelling substitute". The caliber, backgrounds and skill of my peers was amazing.

Why don't you try substituting in inner city schools and observe what they do, first hand?

[Clara Lou]

Yoo hoo! Words have meaning. You did notice that I used the qualifier “in general,” correct? That means that I am a speaking of many, but not all, substitutes with whom I had experience.

I taught, by the way, for 22 years in a school district where 60+% of students were receiving either free or reduced price lunches— basically an inner city school district in the suburbs.