Today's Wednesday...that means it was a work day for me. Booooo. I've been substitute teaching now for about 5 months and I suppose I'll say it's okay. At least when I sub in the Maize district. I've come to the conclusion that I don't like Wichita schools. Maybe it's just where I was raised and I'm too preppy or whatever, but I will say that when I walked down that high school hallway for the first time and I was all dressed in my khakis and sweater and not one boy in that hallway had pants pulled up above his knees, the girls were wearing clothes tight enough to be painted on and combs were sticking out of hair....I felt a little out of place....to say the LEAST! I stood out like a sore thumb.
It all came to a head when a couple weeks before Christmas for two Wednesdays in a row I subbed in the middle schools and both weeks there were fights in my room. The second week it was an all out fist fight of two 7th grade boys, both twice my size mind you, pounding the living daylights out of each other in my first hour classroom. Um yeah. Not worth the $50 for my half day. Take me home to my baby please. I'd rather sell my plasma. Anyways, that kinda did me in and I took a 6 week hiatus (an extended Christmas break if you will) from the Wichita schools and I still have yet to go back. Thankfully the Lord has been once again faithful and while I was home they called me to sub in the Maize schools (which are SOOOOOO much easier and better!) and while I couldn't do it that week, I told "Sandy - sub finder" (as known by my iphone) that I'd like to work on Wednesdays if possible. She told me to call and remind her on Tuesdays and she'd look for jobs for me. Well that's worked. And I've gotten jobs the last 3 Wednesdays. Praise the Lord! Today it was a music/vocal class...perfect! My specialty! HA! Thankfully they just took a test and watched Shirley Temple. Nothing like watching the first half of a movie three times in a row. Makes me half tempted to go rent it from the library so I can watch the last half of the movie!
Anyways, Maize is a thousand and one trillion bazillion times better and I'm really glad that I keep getting jobs in that district. As much as I love breaking up fights and pulling 200 lb 7th grade boys off the floor, I think I'll take the other option thank you very much. I have much respect for teachers who do this every day. By the end of the day I am exhausted from standing and being "on" all day. Maybe it's cause I don't work every day anymore or maybe it's just that being a teacher is hard work (I'm willing to vouch for the second). Props to you teachers out there. Thanks for lovin' on those kiddos day in and day out because they wear me out after just one day. I'll stick to my own babies and hanging out with the students at youth group when they call me Julie....not Mrs. Goodman!
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Middle school is scary! even the girls are scary! I subbed for a school district in Ohio that the school had Police officer that sat outside the classroom!! (this was a correctional school for juvenile delinquents so this was the "norm". Yeah I was still nervous! The upside was they paid like 90 bucks since it was such a rough school!
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