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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the principal hires a long-term sub, they are in essence filling the position. I dont understand the rationale here -- so they are willing to hire someone they see as crappy or unqualified for a year? Sucks to be those kids.

Also there is still someone willing to do the work if they took the LT sub job? [/quote]

Our ES is highly rated and a few years ago my kid's would-be teacher got sick over the summer. They hired a retired teacher to take over temporarily at the beginning of the year until they could find a replacement, but couldn't. The retired teacher wanted to go back to being retired, so they hired another LT sub, who was completely incompetent as far as teaching anything and an absolute nightmare in terms of handling the kids. She got fired after a couple of weeks. After that, they finally found a SAHM to LT sub the rest of the year. Not a retired teacher, but seems to have done a decent job.

I've subbed and subbing is a horrible job even in normal times because of the kids' behavior. LT subbing may be better because the kids know you control their grades and can call up their parents, but you basically have the workload of a teacher in terms of lesson prep, grading, meetings, communication with parents, remediation, etc. at a fraction of the pay.[/quote]

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