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About a quarter of my first period students were late coming to class and one young lady (who had more body piercing than I have fingers) was particularly disruptive as she entered. When I asked her to please take her seat and work quietly, she gave me the look — you know the look: “I don’t have to do what you say because you’re just a sub.” About 20 minutes before the end of class, she asked for a restroom pass, which I refused her because it was near the end of the period and because the school’s policy (written policy anyway) is for subs to *not* give hall passes. She proceeded to argue (loudly) with me about the restroom pass in front of the class for several minutes before returning to her desk. After a few minutes, I noticed she wasn’t doing her class work, so I asked her if she had finished. When she said she had, I asked if I could see it. “I don’t have to show you ****!” (obscenity omitted) she screamed. I had taken enough of her disrespect and defiance, so I wrote her up a referral and sent her out to the support room (on- campus suspension). She ripped the referral from my hand, threw her backpack against the wall on her way out of the room, and slammed the door behind her. A little while later during nutrition break (a 15-minute break between 2nd and 3rd periods at this high school), I had the good fortune to run across this student again. on seeing me, she began screaming obscenities at me in the halls. I related this behavior to the assistant principal, whose only response (despite the school’s “no hall passes from subs” policy) was “Next time, give the student a restroom pass to avoid this sort of situation.” *sigh* I got an encore performance in 3rd period — Not just one student, but two, got referrals and got sent out. One was for repeatedly shouting obscenities in class and the other was for *gulp* threatening the substitute teacher with violence. As the latter was on the way out of the room, he called me all sorts of pleasant names and swore he would get me back. I sure love high school students. so the day continued until 6th period — the period when I was to fill- in for the English teacher. I went to this teacher’s classroom and found his lesson plans, with the following notation: “During 6th period, I am in charge of the support room around the corner in room E16.” I nearly fainted — the support room is where discipline cases are sent as an alternative to off-campus suspension. As it turns out, though, the support room wasn’t too bad — most of the students there were sufficiently cowed by being sent out of their regular classes. As I was trying to quiet down one rowdy student near the end of the day, though, another student made a comment that pretty much summed up my day: “Man, if I were a substitute teacher, I’d be an alcoholic!”

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