The pay is atrocious, the training is nonexistent, and now the problems with getting paid, when the new timesheet system was adopted, is causing a lot of people to think twice about subbing.

MCPS did a big recruitment fair during the last fed furlough. They did interviews and fingerprints and spent a lot of man hours. Nobody ended up subbing.

Anonymous wrote:Might some of the laid off feds apply to be teachers?

You could work at Sam's Club and make a dollar more than what substitutes are paid, without any headaches. Or go into babysitting, which pays significantly more.