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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. It is important as a sub to let the principals know if you are struggling with a certain kid or class. They can help, if you let them know. They are desperate for subs, so they want you to return. See if you can be specific about what is difficult. Is it lack of lesson plans, or classroom management? Other teachers in the grade will likely help out if you ask. You could only take pre-arranged sub jobs, so you know there will be plans and always ask for an educational movie to be left, just in case.

If you have a particularly troublesome student, they can move that child to another class for the day, but you have to tell them.

I would be liberal with praise and tell kids if they finish all the work for the lesson, they can tell appropriate jokes or have free drawing time. [/quote]

This only works if admin is receptive.  At the schools in which I have subbed, the principal and assistant principal do NOT want to be bothered with disruptive students.  It is frowned upon to bring them to the front office.  I suppose that way they can pretend there aren’t actually any disruptive students and everything is going along smoothly.  [b]I now avoid those schools altogether.[/b] [/quote]

I'm a teacher and former sub and I don't blame you. There are tons of unfilled sub jobs every single day. Subs are not paid enough to put up with crappy treatment or lack of support if a student is out of control. [/quote]

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I'm considering no longer subbing this year.  It's too bad - FCPS is losing out not only on great teachers, but also great subs who are responsible, conscientious, intelligent, and caring.  If they were truly worried about losing this talent, they would immediately change their discipline policies so that disruptive kids are [b]*removed* [/b]from the classroom after three infractions, period.  Principals and ass't. principals need to be fully present and willing to help the teachers with disruptive students, rather than pretending they don't exist.  The teacher/sub and other students shouldn't have to pay for the bad behavior of one or two kids.  [/quote]

FCPS is afraid of the problem students  - whose problem parents know their kids are a problem, and are well practiced at dictating how many ways their snowflake should be allowed to stay, including and not limited to blaming and targeting innocent students. Problem parents will try to shut this truth down, but parents (of non-disruptive students) need to know. [/quote]

Yep.  I had a principal refuse to call the mother of one problem student (dad was out of the picture).  I asked her if she would be contacting the girl's mother and she shrugged.  It was clear she wasn't about to do so.  The mother herself was a bully - she would pick fights with the bus drivers and admin whenever she did happen to come to school.  I could understand not wanting to deal with that kind of parent, but that does nothing to solve the problem of the kid who is ruining it for everyone else.  Isn't this part of a principal's job??[/quote]

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