Sub sub sub sub sub sub suuuubbbing

I've spent February until now subbing for elementary and middle schools. I've done anything from Pre-K up to 8th grade, special needs, media specialist, reading specialist, math, science, English, instructional assistant. For the most part, it's alright. Your days level out, you'll have at least one rough one a week, maybe two, but the rest will lovely or okay or tolerable. Some weeks you get lucky and it's good all week, and some weeks you get unlucky and you have rotten kids all week. I prefer 2nd-5th and then sometimes there is a kindergarten class that is a gem or 7th or 8th graders who aren't complete a-holes. Middle schools is worth it since you get planning periods, aka sit, relax and read, forced quiet time to yourself. Sometimes the schools find other places to put you during that time though and ruin your day. I'll try to take more pictures, these are the only I've seemed to remember...lockers. These are lockers for kindergarten...kindergarten! Wow, they didn't have those in my days. I swear there's a Jayden, Jaiden, Jaden in every class and it's spelled about 5 other ways and that name is unisex. If you can zoom on the lockers you'll see creative ways to spell other names. The kids laugh when I don't pronounce their names right and I want to yell, Heavin?! HEAVIN?! Who is named HEAVIN?! And that seems like Heev-IN to me, not Heaven...

Kids get free breakfast in the morning at most schools I work at and then they only eat half of it and throw away stuff they haven't even opened. It's so crazy wasteful and don't even get me started on school lunches. I've monitored a bunch and they don't eat anything but two bites and milk, maybe the sugary ice cream thing they get too. WASTE! And they don't give kids real plates and silverware anymore, it's all cardboard and plastic, Ugh...I've gotten stop this rant. In general, I don't mind subbing; I wish it paid a little more. Subbing long term (meaning you take a teacher's class for the indeterminable future) makes almost $4 more per hour, so that'd be a good gig but then you're like a normal teacher w/o the pay but also you don't have to get a teaching certificate. I'd consider that. I'm also considering getting an alternative teaching certificate. Not loving teaching but not hating it and it is a professional that's more reliable and transferrable. Anyway...off to lead a nature walk in the park, I'll write about that later.