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Ok, 1st off I don't ever recall saying I subbed for fun. I do it for money. Last month over $600 worth and that ain't too shabby seeing I don't have a flying job right now as things are not too good in the aviation...Enough you understand now bartending and subbing is how I pay the bills. So why go through all the drama for only 2 nights worth of mixing drinks? People ask me that all the time, I'm not offended that you are suggesting I saw a movie and passed the adventure off as my own. There's a couple of reasons; I call a computer and tell them when I want to work. If I wake up and feel like going I do, if I want to sleep more I just go back to sleep. Being a young early-mid twenties male sub is like gold for a secretary. They know what classes they cannot stick women subs in, they're not stupid. Please use a little common sense and imagine in your head what would happen if a woman like Michelle in that movie tried to sub for that class. It doesn't happen, trust me, its like a game to the kids and they want to see which will be the first period to make her cry and she'll run out of class.
I've only been subbing 5 months now, 2-3 times a week. I have more stories than I could ever imagine to tell my bar patrons. I could write 10 Gangsters Paradise's that would put that movie to shame, I don't mean hard core gun in my face stuff, I mean stuff like two students having anal sex in the lab bathroom, and when I tell them "do you know how stupid that is, that's the easiest way to get aids", their only response is, "We didn't have no condom and we dont wanna get her pregnant." I'm telling you I don't have the imagination to make this $hit up. I am very thick skinned, meaning I don't ever let them get to me. When you yell and go nuts and try to demand respect they will eat you alive. Can anyone actually suggest a job that gets even less respect than a high school substitute teacher? (Gulfstream drivers you don't count.) When someone says "yo whiteboy whats our homework?" I just sit there and laugh. It's simply a matter of preference. I would rather not teach than teach. I will sit there and read the USA Today and Wall Street Journal from front to back. Sometimes in the course of a day somehow we'll strike up a conversation and I explain how I'm a pilot trying to get a real job and maybe a kid will show a hint of interest and I'll sit up and start to explain the process of obtaining ratings and then the words "highschool" and "graduate" will come out and they will put their headphones back on like I wasn't just in the middle of a sentence. Honestly though, I would rather it be like this than go into a 5th grade class, "Ok boys and girls, we're gonna learn about the Mayan civilization today." I'll leave that stuff up to the real teachers. I gladly accept the classes no one wants or will take, because there's nothing expected of me. No matter how bad and loud and crazy they get, no one would actually ever come say anything to me other than, "How do you do that? And why?" It's funny when I sit at a techers desk and see my name and phone # scribbled on the corner of their desk calender, I'm known as the guy who will take anything. And then the next day behind the bar everyone wants to know the latest chapter of my substitute teaching saga. The whole point of my original point was suggesting to Badger it is an option. Teaching that is, not what I do. You can choose a 10th grade English class and teach them the difference between a verb and an adverb or whatever, if that's what you want to do, and have great experiences with it. All I was suggesting is that it is as flexible as a side job can get. Then there are MY experiences. Sorry for the long post, but it had to be said, and please nobody write anything along the lines of "Our kids deserve better", that's BS, our teachers deserve better.
