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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is 100% the fault of APS. Many principals are already reaching out to the community, and then when you go to apply to become a substitute all excited to help out with the crisis, you run into a bureaucratic mess. My principal sent out an email begging for subs a few weeks before school started, I submitted by application a week later, and I was hired in November. All this for the privilege of dealing with difficult kids all day for $18 an hour.

I do very much enjoy substituting and I am happy to help, but I can only do it because im a privileged SAHM with kids in school full time who happens to have a passion for education. If they paid a lot more and were able to get the ball rolling at HR they wouldn’t leave teachers scrambling. (Of course I think they first need to pay teachers a lot more so I dunno how that would work out).

Another thing is that they haven’t done a good job of letting the public know that school-based subs (who come to school every day and just cover for whoever needs it) get benefits. If I didn’t have a chronic illness that makes it so I can’t work every day I would gun for that job since DH is self employed and our health insurance is ridiculously expensive. [/quote]
I did not know that SBS get benefits! Is that new?[/quote]

School based subs do get benefits, but they're still paid at $18.25/hour.

I'd much rather have the flexibility of subbing whenever you want (because as a SBS you WILL be needed every day, often juggling many different classrooms in a single day), or a long term sub for higher pay but no benefits.

All in all, it's a complete mess. This time last year, there were like 200-300 advance notice sub openings. This morning it's over 800. 
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A few years ago I was asking our school based sub why she didn’t want to make more money as an assistant, and it was because she could actually take time off whenever she needed to as a school-based sub. She didn’t get paid for the days off but it offered flexibility [/quote]

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