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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach ESOL and if I secure a sub, they almost always get pulled to cover a class. I feel so badly about it, I don’t even want a sub for my groups but they encourage us to get coverage so those students get the hours of services, but then they don’t.

I would put your foot down on the cafeteria duty, but I think the rest you may have to suck up. The flexibility of subbing benefits you, but you need to be flexible as well for the school. The needs are so big right now.

Thank you so much!! Please don’t give up![/quote]

Let's be clear here: there is very little that benefits being a sub, who get paid half as much an hour as an entry level teacher with no healthcare or pension or PTO, but one thing that does is: BEING ABLE TO DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A JOB or not. Choosing to take a job, showing up and being told you are in fact going to do something else is BS.

If teachers or schools or front office staff are rude to subs, you make your own bed....[/quote]

There has to be a reason that subs are subs…and for the ones that I know personally and professionally, they say they do it for the flexibility. And as an ESOL teacher I have had to sub for other teachers plenty of times. So I get how hard it is. Teaching is hard, subbing is also hard because the kids take advantage and some sub plans are challenging to follow and the technology doesn’t always come easy. I believe subs should be paid a LOT more. But schools are understaffed and we are at almost crisis mode, so I believe being in education right now requires some degree of flexibility. [/quote]

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