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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some companies have a limited number of paid hours available per employee for “community service.” A program that makes it possible for those folks to get certified to sub could soften the low pay issue. I’d happily use my paid CS hours to work in my kid’s classroom for the day but I don’t have a ton of time to devote to jumping through bureaucratic hoops. [/quote]

This is an interesting idea. Like if a biotech company could screen and TB test employee volunteers to serve as middle and high school science subs. An engineering company could do math, etc. [/quote]

I really like this idea.  I am sure large companies would be happy for the PR boost from such a program and it would allow people who know the content in MS and HS to sub.[/quote]

This is a terrible idea. When a teacher calls out at 7 am, what company is ok with employees just not showing up? Unless they are consistently missing work to volunteer they will never get any better at being a sub. We don’t need volunteers we need substitutes. [/quote]

Exactly, and everyone means well and wants to "give back" with their expertise but the reality is that success in the classroom is about 85% classroom management. If you don't have the ability to manage a classroom full of students with competing needs (and are all over with their subject mastery) suddenly the idea of being content expert sub seems not as interesting and definitely not what was expected. It's like charity nobody really wants or needs.[/quote]

As long as the pay is what it is, charity is the best you've got. I love teachers. I'm married to one. He's underpaid. Every teacher in his school is. So are the subs when they can get them (they can't). A competent non-teaching professional is better than having a teacher covering multiple classes or pulling the reading specialist from their duties to sub for a gen-ed class, because that's how things are currently going.  [/quote]

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