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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NO

How many more ridiculous ways are we going to come up with the avoid the bottom line: Teaching and subbing don’t pay enough. If you want more people to be teachers and subs, PAY THEM MORE. The same way you get more people to do any other job on earth.

We’re all just playing dumb to this reality. [/quote]

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Or the basic bottom line that Public school is broken in this country. 
No, OP, I do not want substitute duty like jury duty. I don't want people begrudgingly showing up to babysit my middle schooler once a year and trying to get out of it by claiming one of the million reasons people give for getting out of jury duty. Not to mention, being a substitute is hopefully has more requirements than a pulse and an ID.  I realize that it's gotten to that point which only lends to the belief that public schooling is broken in this country.

Despite what some may think, this isn't because parents don't want to show up and be involved. We don't need to be forced with substitute duty. Most of us are good people who want the best for our kids. It's a contentious situation after the  pandemic between parents, teachers, administrators and the school system. Why on earth would forcing parents parents to miss more work?

Parents have the right to be critical of systemic failures. We have the right to be critical of a school which doesn't have staffing to meet our child's needs. We are compelled to send our child to a K-12 school somewhere. If we don't have the means to pay more than our taxes, we have to send them to public school or homeschool. Since we are paying our taxes and forced to send our children to the schools for 180 days a year, it's amazing to me that we don't have an organized voice which isn't a PTO/PTA.  If they ever choose to compel me to spend a few days a year as a substitute in order to teach some weird lesson of how hard teachers have it or how difficult it is to hire substitutes for minimal hourly pay, I may be the one who starts that union.

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