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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Napftor" data-source="post: 1968076" data-attributes="member: 617">I have to reiterate here the need to stay away from substitute teaching (at least for high school).  It's the Black Death of employment opportunities.  Here's a little story for ya.Our area was in dire need of subs, so dire that they were taking anyone with a bachelor's degree.  I have a B.A. in English so I thought, "What the heck?  It might be fun and it's easy money."  Bzzt.  That was my first mistake.  Unless you've got the patience of Job or a briefcase full of muzzles, it's not for you.  But I went for it anyway and subbed twice at my local high school.  The first time wasn't too bad.  My brother visited me and the day went pretty quickly.  Didn't much like getting up early but it comes with the territory.The second and last time, however, I felt ill by the end of the day.  I was subbing for a Spanish teacher (which I could handle, having a few years of Spanish myself).  But by 1-th period the little buggers were taking no prisoners.  They pretty much had a study hall for the period, but they had to act up anyway.  Then it happened.I stood up and said, "If you'll be quiet for the rest of the period, I'll teach you a naughty Spanish phrase."Little did I know that those words ushered in my doom.  Well, they shut up, more than eager to learn something for a change.  I wrote on the blackboard: Tu chupas genitales de perros.  Even if you're not familiar with the language, you can probably get the general idea.  They were pleased, to say the least.  Heck, we even went over it word by word!  The next period (the last of the day), the vice-principal called me.  I was to report to his office at the end of the day.  With a sense of bitter irony (I had never been called to any office as a student, but now was about to be reprimanded as a teacher!), I went there after the period was over.  The VP told me how a girl had ratted me out from that 10th period and I agreed that maybe discipline wasn't one of my strong points.When he added, "We can work on this in the future, or maybe this just isn't right for you."  I replied, "You know what?  I think you're right.  This isn't right for me."  With that, I left, never to return to subbing.  And let that be a lesson to you all!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />    <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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