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femme-foucault · 2 months ago

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Me before my part time substitute teaching/glorified baby gig: I really hope I get the high schoolers and not the littles

After 1 English class on Romeo and Juliet and one general AP humanities class and being assigned a summer camp assistant counselor job for three afternoons: THANK GOD IM WATCHING FOUR-SIX YEAR OLDS!!!

#I am in no position to judge academic readiness as a sub (everyone has an Easy Backup Lesson on hand in case of a sub day #I had at least two variations #one for prepared absences (Rosh H and Yom Kippur) one just in case #my perspective on Kids These Days #are nuanced but I’ll just say I am genuinely kinda alarmed at the behavioral issues #ever seen the British show Adolescence? about that bad except I have even less control as a suv #the only way to get them to even take role is to be liked #the only way to be liked is to let them get away with everything #they can’t put their trash in the trash can #I am TOTALLY fine with them eating in class all they want #bc I n ow the school asked about peanut allergies or other concerns day 1 in the year #sure eat all all you want! drink at your desk! (just be careful not to spill anything on school computers but go ahead!)#but my god they LiTTER #kids should be allowed to go to the rest room as needed (though I do get nervous when they are gone too long not bc they don’t have the #right to use the restroom but I’m paranoid about safety and I don’t want them rubbing off campus and something f #happening #but they can’t take roll call #there is a kid named Isaiah in one class and another named Isiah #and another named Iziah #they both got their own last names mixed up when one was late and I was trying to mark one present and I asked his last name repeatedly #this 16 year old kept just saying *Iziah with a z*#I told him that unfortunately his name was misspelled on the roster as Isiah and I needed his last name to mark him present #I was apologetic about it like *im sorry it’s misspelled t #but he lit didn’t know his last name and couldn’t process why I was asking he’s 16-17 #they really really struggle to take attendance #I swear I’m not someone who is a hard nose esp as a sub and I grew up poor FirstG and these kids are more affluent than Title I but also #but not as rich as other schools in the same burb so no don’t come at me about inner city schools #they have a gifted program and tutoring and AP l #classes and I didn’t. also the fact I’d get the shit beaten out of me for acting like that and they probably don’t is an IMPROVEMENT in how #kids are raised so no I’m not saying things there aren’t better in many ways but the rudeness not so much to me but to each OTHER was wild

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