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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son's teacher (4th grade) has been out since winter break for surgery.  She's slated to come back after spring break (the week of March 23rd).  In the interim, his class has a sub, who, for what it's worth, does not have a teaching license or degree.  She's in charge of giving them classwork and tests, and grading them, and will be in charge of their report cards.  Almost half the class, including my child, is in the school's "advanced studies" program.  I believe the class in general is struggling under her guidance.  My son told me that another teacher came in a few weeks ago and asked the class why everyone was doing so poorly on the classwork and tests.  True to this, my son has been coming home with grades MUCH lower than we are used to from him.  I believe that it's a combination of harsh grading and poor teaching.  Most of his low grades are in math; however, when I sit down with him merely for 30 minutes, the material clicks - but at that point, he's already gotten a bunch of low grades on his work (the sub relies VERY heavily on worksheets). :/

I've spoken to a couple of other parents and learned that their kids are also in the same boat (also in the advanced program but now struggling).  It's not a matter of the kids slacking off with the sub...these are ambitious kids who excelled with their actual teacher and are really upset that they're now having issues.

[b]Would you be comfortable in having an unlicensed, non-degreed substitute teaching your kids for 3 months?[/b]

Would you say something to the sub in this situation, regarding her reliance on the worksheets and how perhaps the kids need more hands-on teaching?  [/quote]

Do you have a choice? He is in 4th grade so worksheets are pretty typical. We went through out math book one page at a time all year long when I was a kid. We had to copy the problems in our notebook and then solve them. What else do you expect a sub to do? The school is probably just lucky to find a warm body to put in the classroom.[/quote]

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