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"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did I’m a little late to the party but here is goes..
I had a Grade 1/2 class last year and one student had diabetes. Let’s call him Adam. So Adam had a cell phone that beeps when his blood sugar is too low/high. It’s connected to the monitor in his arm/hip. The cell phone has no other uses, no apps, no data, not connected to the school wifi. The substitute saw his phone on his desk and promptly took it away as per the “no devices” rule. During gym class an EA comes in to make sure everything is ok, and Adam is visibly ill. Pale/sweating the whole works. Luckily this EA knows Adams medical plan, instantly asks the Adam for the phone and he explains that the substitute took it away in the morning. The EA then LOSES IT on the substitute demanding the phone. The substitute calls in the principal to reprimand the EA, then get reprimanded herself as obviously she did not read the students safety plans. She was asked to leave and the principal taught the class the rest of the day. Adam was fine, drank a couple juice boxes and had a granola bar. Mom picked him up shortly after.

Final score:

83points

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Ilikemybooksshakennotstirred 4 months ago

Thank god for the EA!

35points

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did I was a teachers assistant while in college. The teacher and I took a week long workshop and had a sub.

The worst thing she did.

Not letting the kids go potty. It was in kindergarten and she said all the kids going to bathroom were interrupting the class.

One girl wet herself. School policy was if kids under a certain age had an accident the nurse would give them a pull up (basically a diaper) to wear. The substitute proceeded to make fun of the girl for wear a diaper, calling her baby and such.

The little girl ended facing repercussions at home too.

It’s was devastating to hear about.

anon , Pavel Danilyuk Report

Final score:

75points

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Huddo's sister 4 months ago

That's so sad! I don't understand why teachers would take away the basic right of hygiene from children, just because it was distracting. What I would have done, if I didn't want kids going all the time, is take the whole class down to the toilets at the same time, then continue class. The poor girl will probably remember this trauma her whole life!

51points

Teachers hold great power in influencing students, and even a substitute teacher can have an impact on them. “A 'bad' teacher can cause hell to break loose upon a student, and a bad substitute teacher can cause even worse! The instability, confusion, and frustration resulting from a poor experience with a sub can impact a student's mental equilibrium,” said Maryam Shaikh–a teacher and education researcher for the past 6 years–in an interview for Bored Panda.

She even stressed, “Adolescent learners feel a threat to their personhood, with the presence of a new figure and feel the need to reassert themselves, while dealing with a million other physical, emotional, and intellectual changes. These factors may sometimes translate to students complaining about going to school.” Now we know why kids don’t want to go to school when a sub is teaching.

“I am sure these can be nullified by a good peer circle, though. We often overlook the fact that a classroom consists of several dynamic social groups, and students can band together in case of a bad sub!” mentioned Maryam. So, parents, if your kid has good peers, don't be too stressed by a weird substitute teacher.

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Student here.
TLDR: Sub demanded I turn over my heart monitor in front of the class.

Junior year I was having major heart problems and had to wear a heart monitor 15 hours a day. It had a phone attached that when I had heart murmurs, it would send the data to my doctor.

I was wearing it and started having heart issues. It buzzed and I went to click send when the sub demanded I turn over my cellphone.

I started to explain why I couldn't and she snapped at me so I lifted my shirt to show the wires and sensors strapped to my chest, in front of the class of 50 students. (Choir class)

Ive never seen ANYONES face drop that fast in my life.

TKonthefrittz , freepik Report

Final score:

67points

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AKA AKA 4 months ago

when they dont listen, all you can do is show them and hope they aren't blind

36points

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Accused a student of stealing something that the aide had put away. This was a class that contained some pretty rough students including one suspended multiple times for fighting and some gang members. She decided to go after a sweet, petite girl that never caused trouble and was generally popular with her classmates. This set off the entire class which is when the sub went ballistic and started wildly throwing accusations and yelling at said students. Security eventually got called and took several students out. My first clue was when the sub got my cell number from the staff directory and went off for 20+ minutes about how bad my students had been. This was followed up with an extremely long email and a two page written note on my desk plus a concerned note from the administrator about not having appropriate sub plans (she didn’t follow them in the first place and decided to throw me under the bus).

The next morning when I arrived at school, the students were waiting for me at the door. Once I got them calmed down enough to tell their side of the story, we had a discussion on how they could have handled the situation differently. I promised them never to get that sub again.

On a related note, I had a good relationship with said “rough children” because I treated them with respect and fairness. They usually behaved for me.

Altrano , RDNE Stock project Report

Final score:

63points

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Hey! 4 months ago

Respect. That's all they need. And they don't like it when the innocent gets blamed. You have good students, even if they are considered rough.

44points

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did The first year I taught 5th grade, I really wanted to do something special for my students before Christmas vacation. I spoke with my team and we came up with the idea to make every student a personalized Christmas ornament. We were going to surprise them by displaying the ornaments on a Christmas tree the day before vacation and they would be able to take them home.

I was gone for a department thing the day before we were going to set up the tree, and one of the least liked subs was scheduled for my class. Since I had stored all the ornaments in my closet, I simply asked if the students needed any supplies, make sure to get them yourself and not let them see the surprise.

The thing about this sub, and the reason she wasn't liked, was that her first line of defense was always threaten to take away something from for misbehaving: recess, free time, lunch, etc. (I think you know where I'm going with this).

Fast forward to the end of the day, I get back to my classroom in the last 30 min of class so I could dismiss them when all of a sudden, I'm met with 25 kids asking about their ornaments. I tried to play dumb and asked them what they were talking about and of course they informed me the sub said something. She told the students about the ornaments and said if they misbehaved, she would tell me and I would take away their ornaments.

Instantly, I was filled with horror that the surprised was ruined for all 5th grade (they're kids, they told the whole grade during recess), anger because that damn sub ruined the surprise, sand disappointment because I really wanted to see their faces when they walked through the door the next day and saw a special Christmas tree with their personalized ornament.

Its not the biggest deal or anything, but I was really upset that weekend. To this day, when i talk to my old partners, I still refer to her as the Grinch!

Staticlobo , freepik Report

Final score:

47points

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Orysha 4 months ago

The Grinch is nicer!

15points

"Due to the temporary nature of a substitute teacher, students fail to create an emotional bond, which stops them from sharing their feelings or thoughts with the teacher, thinking that they won’t be understood. This way, the class becomes a little unorganized, chaotic, and also lacks discipline, when all they wanted was a listening ear and an understanding mindset," shared Madhura Ghan, another teacher that we interviewed.

Substitute teachers often complain of being mistreated by kids, but when the kids themselves are caught in conflict, it becomes difficult for them to be on their best behavior. According to Madhura, "Subs have an impact on the learning ability of the students in a huge way. In a regular course, if the students are supposed to showcase a learning inclination they instead show stagnancy in their learning."

Students attend school for the primary purpose of learning; if that itself is taken away from them, then brings into question the institution's substitute management.

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did When I was a substitute, I got a lot of requested jobs because the substitute pool was poor. One such example given to me was a substitute who would just go to sleep. I barely believed it.

Once I was teaching full time, I had a sub come in for a day. When I got back my students told me that he told them to leave him alone, sat down, and went to sleep.

I believed it then.

tylerbrainerd , zinkevych Report

Final score:

45points

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Bec 4 months ago

I recall that we had a few regulars at my school who subbed. They must have made a good impression

10points

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Not a teacher but the sub made the handicap classmate who has muscle, joint and vision complications go grab his textbook from his home room. He's not completely helpless but when it comes to heavy things, he needs help.

Classmates home room was half way across campus and the required book consists of 5 large text volumes because they're specifically made for his poor vision. He can't wear glasses either due to complications. I offered to help because I'm usually the one that goes and grabs it for him during normal class but the sub yelled at me saying he knows my kind and I'm just trying to get out of class. Sub told me he's not there to play games and for me to quit it before he sends me off to the principal's office. Needless to say the entire class was shocked. Classmate came back with another student from the homeroom requesting that next time the sub send someone else to grab the books because my classmate can't carry it by himself. When my usual teacher came back we requested the sub not return because of what he said to us and did to classmate. My teacher wrote an email to the principal about it and that was the end of that.

anon , Pixabay Report

Final score:

45points

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"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did I came back after being gone ONE DAY and my students told me the substitute teacher flipped over tables in a rage and was escorted from the building by a cop.

What actually happened is that the sub left the room to take a 20 min phone call and the kids thought it would be funny to flip the tables over. The substitute then had to flip the tables right side up while yelling at the kids.

Then, during lunch, my Special Ed. Co-teacher came into my room to set up and caught the sub MAKING OUT WITH A STUDENT. Turns out she was 18 to his 25 and the 20 min phone call was to set up the lunch meeting. The principal then had him escorted from the building by the resource officer. This is why I say having a sub is more work than just coming into school my damn self.

Edit: Wrong version of principal.

mewolkens , wirestock Report

Final score:

39points

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dremetrius 4 months ago

Not the main issue by a long shot, but like... if you need (choose!) to be gone 20 minutes, at least have a sense of humor for the kids you're neglecting. We had a couple teachers who took pranks in stride, they were also the ones we behaved the best for, because we knew they liked us and were there to make school as fun as they could within reason.

8points

As per Madhura, "The substitute teacher is there to just teach a lesson and go, which also kind of hinders in a conducive learning environment." While Maryam is of the opinion, "A sub can break the 'flow' of learning that students may have got accustomed to. But I do think a change of routine, in moderation, is always beneficial and refreshing. It invites new possibilities!"

Although substitute teachers are necessary, schools need to thoroughly check their qualifications and teaching methods in the same rigorous way that they do when hiring a permanent teacher. Otherwise, it's the students who have to suffer from bad subs.

#10

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Gave out snacks I bought with my own money that I kept for kids who stayed after to get tutoring.

Threw out a broken electric pencil sharpener that kids broke in front of her. Which again, I bought with my own money and couldn't get replaced by the company because I had no product to send back. I still don't have a sharpener for my room.

Let the kids go through my things in my cabinets and desk. Lost a bunch of stuff that way.

29mick152 , Denny Müller Report

Final score:

38points

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Huddo's sister 4 months ago

When I take on someone else's class/program, I never give out treats to the children, unless I am 100% sure what the system is. That means I will write down who has behaved well or I think deserves a treat, then when the regular teacher comes back they can sort it out. Same if something gets broken, I would leave it for the teacher, so they know what happened. They trust their replacement to run the class as close to their usual program as possible and the substitute needs to respect that.

25points

#11

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did I had a sub give out my cell phone number to my high school students so they could call me and give me excuses as to why they weren’t taking their test while I was gone. I was LIVID. I complained to the sub office, and that teacher never subbed for my building again.

pi_rads , freepik Report

Final score:

38points

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BoredPossum 4 months ago

Wouldn't that be illegal?

15points

#12

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Not a teacher, but in elementary school I had a bloody nose during class and asked to use the restroom. She said no and refused to let me go to the restroom (I think she didn't "believe" me). I sat there until the blood had spilled all over the desk, then raised my bloody hand to be excused and only then did she allow me to go clean myself up. She even had the audacity to ask me why I didn't ask to be excused earlier. Which was a complete lie, as she definitely heard me the first time and even the other students pointed out that my nose was bleeding.

When the teacher returned she was livid about what happened, I believe she complained to the administration to make sure the sub was never hired again.

DDotJ , freepik Report

Final score:

38points

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BoredPossum 4 months ago

What a horrible person!

9points

"Learning is not something that is passively done by students reading a textbook, in isolation. Much of learning stems from our social interaction with teachers and mentors, or the Zone of Proximal Development that Vygotsky talks about. When this social aspect of learning is missing, students may struggle to articulate their problems, understand concepts, evaluate phenomena, and fail to apply new learnings to their lives," claims Maryam.

To overcome this issue, she suggests, "A substitution mechanism, with a permanent primary teacher and permanent substitute or assistant teacher, for the grade and the subject should be implemented." This does sound quite fair and it would definitely put the school in a good light for making efforts to look after the students' well-being, rather than let a bad sub ruin things for them.

Do you have any other suggestions for this particular issue? You must've had a bad sub at least once, so, go on, and share your experience with us in the comments. We are sure it will definitely be relatable to someone out there!

#13

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Back when I was a teacher, I had a sub decide my plans weren’t good enough for her and went rogue. She decided to show my students videos of animals giving birth on YouTube.

I taught English...

DrivingSharkBait , Мария Report

Final score:

36points

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AKA AKA 4 months ago

i remember having a science techer making us watch a full video of a woman giving birth. . we were 11 for gods sake. it wasnt even on the curriculam. uggh disgusting🤢😖😱😱🤬😷🤮

14points

Paul Brown 4 months ago

I remember them showing a video of a woman giving birth and the kid next to me fainted while watching it. Poor guy, took awhile before people stopped teasing him.

6points

BatPhace 4 months ago

Birth control lol

1point

Keller Worthen 4 months ago

I'm fairly certain that is illegal (at least where I live)

0points

dremetrius 4 months ago

One teacher decided to show us Never Cry Wolf. Turns out he had read the book but never watched the movie. A classroom full of 10 year olds got their first exposure (heh) to full frontal nudity that day, and also learned how lightning quick one teacher could move from their seat to the television.

6points

Rosie! 4 months ago

I wonder what went through her head . like "I'm subbing for an English class. I'm going to show them videos of animals giving birth."

5points

Papa 4 months ago

I can tell you what went through her head: not much.

4points

Sojourner 1 month ago

Rip.

0points

Dread Pirate Roberts 4 months ago

Wtf

0points

Dee Rutherford 4 months ago

😳😳

0points

Megan Fair 4 months ago

wtf

0points

teacheroftroubles , Marga Santoso Report

#14

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did I had left out - overnight - eggs that I was going to use in a science experiment the following day. I was out and thought nothing about it. I returned the following day and went looking for the eggs only to find them missing. Asked a student where they went and I was informed that the substitute took the class to the special education kitchen, hard boiled them and ate them.
I went to talk to my AP and was informed that the sub had called in sick for her job for that day, due to food poisoning.

Final score:

36points

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Huddo's sister 4 months ago

Who eats any random food they find in a classroom, let alone eggs?!

36points

#15

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did I would occasionally give out starbursts to my 4th graders. B***h ate all the pink ones.

GAL_9000 , Taylor Rooney Report

Final score:

34points

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 4 months ago

That monster.

22points

#16

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Not a teacher, but in the 4th grade, our teacher had a baby and was gone for several weeks. The sub we had was an absolute witch. She had NO patience for kids, she'd yell at us for stupid s**t, ask us questions and or give us homework that was WAY above our tiny 4th grade brain levels and then complain and call us stupid when literally none of the kids did well on the work.

One girl decided to get smart with her one day and she walks over and slaps the girl, hard across the face, which of course sends the girl into a hysterical sobbing fit. and says "that's what your w***e of a mother should be doing more often"

being tiny, adorable 4th graders, we were all too afraid to tell anyone. We had to deal with that for 3 weeks until the main teacher came back.

BlorpusDorpus , stockking Report

Final score:

33points

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AKA AKA 4 months ago

i really hope when that when she taught 17yr olds they smacked her one right back. preferebly with a dictionary, unless anyone can suggest anything better?

20points

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#17

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Not a teacher but we had a sub for our Science class.

She didn't believe in science but pseudo sciences, was sexist to males, and because of her weird diet would rip loud sulphur smelling farts all the time. Then get mad if we brought it up despite being fed newage hippie b******t and being cropdusted.

She also was a horrible sex Ed teacher because she said women can choose when to have periods without birth control.

rickrolo24 , Max Fischer Report

Final score:

29points

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Strings 4 months ago

The scariest part here? "She"... this was a woman spreading lies about how her reproductive system works...

39points

#18

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Left my perfectly prepped and neat desk an absolute disaster, did not follow the lesson plan and... took my gel pens!

Mme_O , nina Report

Final score:

28points

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 4 months ago

:0 not the gel pens!

19points

Affectionate-Egg7888 , Thought Catalog Report

#19

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did 1. Asked a deaf kid to take off his hearing aids. Kids tried to tell her he needs to them but to her they "look like headphones." She cried when was confronted by another teacher.
2. When I was in 6th grade I fractured my wrist but it was my dominant hand so I had to poorly write with my right. Teacher forced me to write with my left while I had a cast. I couldn't even grasp the pencil. Cried a lot. Then a couple months go by and got my cast off, sub told me to suck it up and write with my left hours after getting my cast off. I felt like jelly and intense pain. Teacher was fired at the end of 7th grade because of "unnecessary complaints"

Edit: I should've realized this was a teachers question not a student Q. This is considered my first post that I really thought wouldn't get noticed and now my inbox is full of messages. To clear some questions, I would never steal someone's story and both stories are very true but probably be something similar you have encountered before. Also, the teachers should know how to treat students in any situation whatsoever. If teachers really hate their jobs, dont include kids into it. I remember crying asking my mom why does my teacher pick on me or make me do things I couldn't do.

Final score:

26points

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René Sauer 4 months ago

I find it weird how they are basically apologizing in the last paragraph. As long as the story at least fits the theme of the question, who cares that they are not the target group that was actually questioned?

27points

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#20

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did This happened to my colleague, but I was the classroom next door.

My colleague was showing Clash of the Titans at the end of the year after a unit on Ancient Greece. There is mild nudity at the beginning and the end of the movie, but they were in the middle of the movie so there shouldn’t have been an issue.

He left the video paused at the right spot (we still had VCRs like 10 years ago when this happened), but the sub somehow managed to show both the nudity at the beginning *and* the end of the movie. The nudity scenes were hours apart and the class was only 40 minutes.

Then, the sub wrote an email to the principal about how my colleague made him show nudity.

jtotheizzen , Ron Lach Report

Final score:

25points

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Rinso The Red 4 months ago

We watched an unedited version of Romeo and Juliet (yes, that version), when I was in 7th grade. No one is sure how we got the original version, but the teacher was certainly surprised to say the least.

6points

#21

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did I had a cool Chinese Lucky Cat that went missing after I had a sub. My students said the sub seemed really intrigued by it, talked about it several times, and even moved it from the shelf where it sat and brought it over to my desk. It was gone when I returned the next day. 😒.

Pacifickarma , Charlie Firth Report

Final score:

25points

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Steve Hall 4 months ago

The cat wasn't as lucky as you thought.

6points

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#22

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Lost more than half of my textbooks that I purchased myself. Aswell as textbooks that were schoolproperty.

Administration just shrugged at this. Until they found out the textbooks belonging to the school were around 120 dollars each.

Also lost all the bookassignments of 4 classes I asked him to collect so I could correct those at home.
Kinda sucked for the students who did put a lot of work on it and didn't have digital copies.

Also didn't teach anything that I asked him to, because he didn't really like the subjectmatter.

Also didn't bother grading. When I checked the grades he had given out; there was only 1 grade and everyone was given 8/10 ... even students that didn't take my class.

SirDoctorTardis , Lum3n Report

Final score:

24points

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Jenna Kay 4 months ago

I had a sub while I was out on maternity leave. She lost the teachers manual 🤦🏻‍♀️ and said she couldn't find my lesson plans I had left ... on the desk ... in a folder ... marked in large black Sharpie "Lesson Plans for Substitute Teacher"

7points

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#23

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did She let the kids run wild and do whatever they wanted (first graders). I was out because my dad died. Thank god my team realized what happened and all pulled together and cleaned the room/put it back together before I returned to work.

HambergerPattie , Pavel Danilyuk Report

Final score:

23points

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Costco card 4 months ago

That's very kind of your team

11points

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#24

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Two things come to mind:

1. Tell the black children they need to speak more clearly because people think black people are hard to understand.

2. Just sit and play on the phone while class loses its mind.

Mahaloth , Katerina Holmes Report

Final score:

23points

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Skater Chick (he/him) 4 months ago

Racist loser. I hope the fist one got fired.

7points

#25

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did I've had so many bad subs.

One sub made an elementary student cry insisting her own name was misspelled and made her stand up in front of the class and admit her name was spelled wrong. I asked that she not return but I still saw her around as other teachers had her sub.

Another one worth mentioning was supposed to be my sub for the last 2 weeks of school because I went on maternity leave, this time teaching at a 7th-12th grade school. Ignored all my sub plans, played on his cell phone the whole time, and then like 3 days in got upset at the students and told them off. And then they watched as he walked out to the parking lot and drove away. Thank goodness some kids went and told the office. When I came back it was like my room had been ransacked! It was awful.

ambereatsbugs , gpointstudio Report

Final score:

23points

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Con O Cuinn 4 months ago

Had a teacher do that s**t with the names. She was English and kept saying I was spelling my name wrong as Gaeilge. My family's from a Gaeltacht region, I'm pretty sure I know how to spell my name better than someone who's Irish level is below 5th class standard.

14points

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#26

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Not a teacher but in 7th grade life science we had a sub. For the first 5 or so minutes of class he made us do a Kahoot (for anyone who doesn't know Kahoot is a learning website that let's you take a quiz in a fun way) the only problem was that he told us every awnser. Next we were supposed to be learning about parts of a microscope but instead he got them out and told us to mess around with them and he broke one of them. After that he put a video up and ate my teachers chocolate then fell asleep for the last half hour or so of class. Needless to say when our teacher got back and we told her about the sub he was fired.

anon , Artem Podrez Report

Final score:

23points

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Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago

Sounds like he was trying to hard to be the "cool substitute" by going easy on the class, which very much backfired.

9points

#27

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Re-arranged my room.

Not in a "Moved Student A away from Student B and put her by Student C" way.

In a "Move the giant rug over to the opposite corner of the room, and completely change the layout of student desks, and rearrange a bookshelf" way.

dr239 , Jeffrey Hamilton Report

Final score:

21points

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Hey! 4 months ago

She sounds like my MIL. She would do that sort of thing.

8points

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#28

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Not a teacher but I participate in STEM programs a lot. In the 90s I belonged to a club that refurbished old industrial PCs and donated them to schools. Sometimes we’d get completely burned out motherboards or disk drives so I took a bunch of those and made displays showing the insides of computers, and I’d let the kids explore them as part of my session. Then I’d dig out a couple of blown PCs and monitors, hand out the screw drivers and let them rip them apart. Yes I was always careful around the old tube monitors. Once they were done I’d let them pick a part if they wanted to take home.

The younger kids especially loved this, and frequently I’d see some kids take home a hard drive controller or a graphics card like it was a real treasure. I even made the local news with my program (that’s the thing about living in a small city - eventually everyone makes the news)

So one day I went in to do my lesson at a high school (I think freshman or sophomore science class). The class had a substitute and I had an appt right after that session, so I told them I’d come back to pick everything up the next day. The kids could take whatever they wanted from the old PCs, but please put my displays aside, in the cupboard.

Next day I came by and all my displays were still out and they were completely trashed. Worse yet the sub’s attitude was, “well, kids will be kids”

That was the last session I did, ever, for that program.

DarthSanity , Nathan Anderson Report

Final score:

18points

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Lyoness 4 months ago

It's so sad that the other students paid the price because the sub didn't bother to supervise.

9points

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#29

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Had a sub who somehow allowed a last period class of freshman to convince him that they were not supposed to be working on the packet that I left for the class (and which every other class that day had been working on...) because they had "already finished it" and told him they were supposed to be watching a movie. He went to the library to get the movie, leaving the class unattended, which promptly then broke out a dance party involving dancing on the desks. My department chair's classroom was next door but as she taught AP government to seniors, she was able to leave them to come next door and try to figure out what the hell was going on. No sub. She calmed the class down and into the seats and into the worksheets, and calls the principal, who met the sub on his way back from the library and told him he could go home. My chair also found it would be appropriate to basically call me and blame me for this while I was sick at home. I don't teach anymore lol. I mean, packets were not a great emergency sub plan but what can you do? They could have played Heads Up 7 Up for all I cared lol. They were a handful of a group on the best days. Freshman after lunch during last period of the day are a situation.

anon , Katerina Holmes Report

Final score:

17points

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JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 4 months ago

Poor sub

6points

#30

"He Was Escorted From The Building By A Cop": 30 Terrible Things Substitute Teachers Did Was a student. Our maths teacher went on leave for a while (I think maternity) and the supply teacher was absolutely useless. He’d been given one topic to teach us and that was it. For weeks. We had a whole textbook to be working through and I was gunning to take my maths GCSE a year early, but no, we just did a topic our class had got the hang of in a week, for two or three months, because I guess he didn’t know or bother to ask what we were supposed to be doing next.

So the rest of the year we had to go ahead of the pace we were expecting to be able to cover everything we had to know. F*****g supply teachers.

NoraGrooGroo , freepik Report

Final score:

17points

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Kylie 4 months ago

Is there no actual standards to be a substitute teacher? A lot (most) of these posts are absolutely appalling.

14points

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AKA AKA 4 months ago

this list was so painful to read

9points

Freddy M. (He/Him) 4 months ago

This one's much smaller than these here, but I recall when I was in elementary school I had a sub who was calling attendance and called on me by my full name, as that was what was on the list, so I said "Here, but I prefer to go by x", like I do any time we have a sub or when starting a new class, their response was "I didn't ask for your whole life story". If I recall he was a jerk throughout the rest of the class too, and we told the teacher when she came back

4points

Michael Largey 4 months ago

When I taught math, I had a sub who somehow talked our Technical Director into giving him the password to my computer because he "needed" it for something. That something was going to Rush Limbaugh's website and some other site which introduced the one and only virus ever to appear on my computer. I had him banned from subbing for me in the future. From then on, whenever I was gone (which was very rare), I locked the computer power chord, mouse, and keyboard in a closet and put at the top of my lessons plans "NONE OF YOUR DUTIES IN MY CLASSROOM WILL REQUIRE THE USE OF MY CLASSROOM COMPUTER. THEREFORE IT IS NOT AVAILABLE." Do the job you're getting paid for.

3points

Tiddlez 4 months ago

I feel like the school board really needs to do some kind of background check for hiring substitute teachers because some of these numbnuts should stay FAR away from children.

2points

Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago

I had the coolest teacher in 5th grade. He would let me bring in a national geographic movie once a month for us to watch (my parents had a subscription of them on VHS, this was the 90s). I brought in one that had a few different topics, including evolution, Darwin, and monkeys. Well, we didn't get to finish it in one day, so he told the sub we were to finish it the next day while he was gone. It gets to the part talking about evolution and Darwin, and she fast forwarded it (because SHE doesn't believe in evolution so we can't hear about it). We all complained about it but she still wouldn't play it for us. We told our teacher the day he came back and he played that part for us. He also requested that she never substitute for him again (the video thing was only 1 of the issues with her, she was just flat out rude)

1point

Diana Barton 1 month ago

As a sub who works hard to be good at teaching, I, too, hate working with other subs who are useless. Especially after our district went to automated technology for scheduling. "Cell phone Dude" spent every minute at school on his phone.....grabbing other sub jobs... ignored the students" "Newspaper man" handed out papers left by classroom teacher and told the kids to get started. When they ignored him, he looked at me, shrugged, and opened his Newspaper. NO worksheet? Read a book so I can read my paper. Can't get rid of him because of the computer system....eventually they found a way. After he let the 7th grade Science class trash the classroom and have a hand sanitizer fight that caused injuries.

0points

Ash 4 months ago

When I worked in subbing there was a very... odd man (harmless, but strange) who used to sub relatively regularly. One time he was supposed to be proctoring a spelling test, and he couldn't pronounce some of the words, so instead he spelled them to the class...

0points

Rebel Peewee 4 months ago

Had a sub in my 8th grade science class - the bell rings and an older man walked in and growls "i'm Mr. Emmitt and I'm a bigot." He didn't say another word the rest of class, just sat there scowling while we stared back at him.

0points

Bowtechie 4 months ago

I was getting bullied by some boys in my class. I reported it to the sub and she told me to "suck it up." I was 7. I'm 30 now and still remember it clear as day.

0points

Julia Brodin 4 months ago

I once had a substitute that told us that he could do whatever he wanted, even assault us, since it would be his word against us, and who'd believe us? He also had ads for porn on his company which he had projected so we could watch a soccer game. We went to the principal, and never saw him again

0points

ElfVibratorGlitter 4 months ago (edited)

I subbed briefly whilst in college. We had to be finger printed, have a background check, and do some training. Only subbed like twice.Turns out it really wasn't for me.

0points

Roberta Surprenant 4 months ago

Had short hair in sophomore year of high school, but my body was definitely female. Had a sub and I was sitting on a desk talking to a boy named Hugh. Sub, "young man, talking to Hugh...." I turned around, flexed my chest forward and said "young man? jump out the window!"

0points

Isabel Galvez 4 months ago

How does this work in US? In Spain substitute teachers have studied at university just like the fixed teachers. They just haven't got a fixed job yet.

0points

ElfVibratorGlitter 4 months ago

In Maryland, USA you just need a high school diploma to be a substitute teacher.

1point

Hphizzle 4 months ago

Teacher was adopting. Baby came very prematurely (was supposed to be born during summer break). We played Scrabble for her classes for the last 2 months of school. At least it was semi educational and fun.

0points

AutumnGirl 4 months ago (edited)

I don't understand… do they just call a random person or what? None of these "subs" sounds like a teacher or at least someone with a brain.

0points

Bec 4 months ago

In my state they have to get a permit and pass a background check.

1point

Kenneth Smith 4 months ago

Had a sub in my high school with a real chip on his shoulder, saying he taught school in the inner city for over 20 years. Would pronounce kids' names wrong, then yell at them and break clipboards when they tried to correct him. He wouldn't let classmates go for yearbook pictures, then had them stand up while he mocked their clubs. Dude was a real piece of work.

0points

Limey 4 months ago

Ummmm. This is a Key and Peele sketch. https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw?si=a1yI4ZWtwBHhKXno

1point