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[quote=Anonymous]My husband takes subbing jobs on his days off from work, and he's confused about something.

It is common for him to sub for classes/periods where there is a co-teacher.  Sometimes, the other teacher is a para, and he understands that there is a responsibility to have a sub in addition to paras.  But sometimes, it is clearly a co-teacher.  Sometimes the co-teacher is only for some periods and not the whole day, which probably complicates things from a staffing perspective.

Of course, the ideal situation would be to get subs for any teacher who is absent.  But if that is unattainable, then it seems like priority needs to go to classes without co-teachers (perhaps having a sub bounce between different classes in the same school depending on what classes have co-teachers available).  And perhaps the next set of classes to forego subs could be those that have more than one para (with one or both paras getting a pay bump if they need to take over the course on that day).

I'm guessing the reasons this isn't done relate to teachers' contracts and to responsibilities to furnish paras for kids with IEPs.  But given that there are sometimes multiple classes put into the cafeteria for study hall because subs aren't available for multiple classes, it really seems like MCPS needs to set back and re-think sub allocation in light of the sub shortage.

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