[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.

[grania]

FWIW. Where I was inner city substituting in general when the principals were on top of things the substitutes who were at those schools were very high caliber, many of us much more qualified than the teachers. Also at those schools teachers who did not leave adequate plans and teach their students how to behave when there was a guest in their room were held accountable.

I had 30 years as a regular class room teacher, tutored for several years and taught across the economic and societal spectrum.