u/ComprehensiveTry4503

Well, based on the title, subbed today for a high school world history teacher, and boy, that teacher has the roughest students.

Dean had to be called to speak to students of one class. The boys of the class started to bully someone who was using their phone for text translations as English wasn’t that students first language, the dean came with no issues.

Had to write a referral to the dean for a student, was basically acting like no one was in front, speaking to him, telling him to do his assignment. Basically being very disrespectful, the dean came by and collected the referral and walk the student out.

The note to the teacher wasn’t the best, as only 1 class out of 6 total classes was very well behaved.

The teacher also didn’t have planning until 7th period, so the end of the day, I wish they had planning in the middle of the day for a mid-day break with these rough students

So, I am a fairly new sub in my county, only done not even 10 jobs within the last few weeks, and have to say this about my county, which is in Northeast Florida, SJCSD. Majority of the sub jobs are for ESE Paraprofessionals jobs who (a) have a permanent vacancy, (b) the paraprofessional is out for the day or (c) the district won’t hire a full-time paraprofessional to be with teachers.

I did both a high school paraprofessional job and elementary paraprofessional job. The high school one has been without a permanent person since January and just has random subs each day with the teacher. The elementary one the paraprofessional was moved to be the teacher after the teacher left, and been with random subs as well, but also has a long-term sub covering another paraprofessional since February for the remainder of the school year.

They even offer paraprofessional sub jobs at the county’s alternative school, which I simply will never work at because it gets the toughest students.

Basically, I feel very sorry for teachers who don’t have a full-time paraprofessional, especially in ESE classrooms who are just getting random subs everyday for the last few months. I feel sorry for the ESE Students who are always adjusting to different subs and don’t have a permanent one for the school year.