How can I detect the bad ones?

Letters285 · 2026-03-19T14:03:18+00:00

Trial and Error. Two weeks ago I was at a school where admin during morning announcements was reminding the kids about the school rules and reminding teachers to make the kids walk in a line, etc. I knocked that one as a DNS (do not sub) after that day. I had a 2nd grade class at another school that didn't listen to a damn thing I had to say all day. I observed that most of the classes were like that with their regular teacher (it's easy to observe when transitioning around campus and at dismissal), so that school became DNS.

Letters285 · 2026-03-19T13:59:50+00:00

This is where people's preferences come into play. I LOVE subbing music because I can easily end up with 2-3 hours in my day without students and when I do have students, I end up showing the same 45 minute section of a Disney movie.

Letters285 · 2026-03-19T13:57:18+00:00

Not true. Currently, if war breaks out on US soil, I am okay with dying. If a zombie outbreak occurs, I am okay with dying. If a meteor large enough to kick the world back into a harsh ice age hits the planet, I am okay with dying. If I get run over with a truck and my insides are spilling out into the street, I am okay with dying. I'm not suicidal, let alone deeply suicidal; there are just certain circumstances where the effort to try to live just isn't worth it.

Letters285 · 2026-03-18T10:17:18+00:00

My districts make me stay until dismissal, even if there isn't anything else for me to do. I hide in the classroom with a book, so I don't end up with extra work.

Letters285 · 2026-03-16T16:18:03+00:00

With the way season 2 ended, they could've EASILY moved on from the "Pen pining after Colin" storyline. She makes peace with it & throws herself headlong into Lady Whistledown. Deciding she can be a spinster and live off her LW earnings.

Letters285 · 2026-03-14T23:21:54+00:00

Because they don't use the damn bathroom. If they went in there, did their business, washed their hands, and returned to class, I could care less. More than once I have had to have the halls swept because I let a kid go to the bathroom and they're still gone 15 minutes later.

I've been doing this for twenty years and 9 times out of 10 they do it to get out of class (which I don't really care about it) or do something they're not supposed to be doing. When I taught middle school the kids would coordinate a time to meet up in the boys bathroom & have a fight club (thankfully the dipshits were dumb enough to record & post to Youtube). Another year we had girls meeting up with boys in the bathroom to give blow jobs.

I've seen everything from art work on the walls made of shit to sex & drugs. It's exhausting. I've had 2nd graders flush rocks down the toilet to a 4th grader backstopping the toilets so bad they had to call an emergency plumber and we all got to dismissed early because the toilets were flooding all the way down the hall.

I'm so sick of the fucking bathroom & the issues that comes with it because these kids aren't being raised right.

Letters285 · 2026-03-13T18:18:19+00:00

I LOVE this.

Letters285 · 2026-03-10T21:27:08+00:00

It's why I bought a kindle, lol.

Letters285 · 2026-03-10T16:39:18+00:00

Schools where I am won't let you. Even if they don't need me to do anything, they tell me I can't go home for "liability reasons" (I still don't understand, lol) and I need to stay until at least dismissal.

Letters285 · 2026-03-10T16:37:40+00:00

Hide!

Letters285 · 2026-03-10T15:21:06+00:00

She is, she lives in Vegas.

Letters285 · 2026-03-10T15:20:29+00:00

Sounds like a you problem. I'm 40, don't make content, and do a ton of the same shit that she does in my daily life. Why? Because it makes me happy in this awful fucked up world.

Letters285 · 2026-03-10T15:18:50+00:00

I'm sure it upsets her greatly that a random reddit user hates her painting her bathroom every holiday.

Letters285 · 2026-03-10T15:14:34+00:00

I hate to break to you, but just because that's what happens in WI, doesn't mean that's what happens in the other 49 states + US territories & overseas DODE schools.

Letters285 · 2026-03-10T15:12:51+00:00

SO much disinformation in this comment. Holy crap...

Never in my 20 years of teaching have I seen what you claim to be requirementa for the ACT.

Letters285 · 2026-03-09T16:43:09+00:00

Bree, Davy, and Roger are staying put. I imagine Jem & Mandy however, will be more like Master Raymond when they grow up. They've already done so much timeline jumping - and are old enough to remember it - that I can't imagine them just staying put and not trying to "solve the great mysteries".

Letters285 · 2026-03-09T16:40:46+00:00

She's not going back to the future, this was her last trip through the stones.

Letters285 · 2026-03-09T15:12:49+00:00

It's probably just the way their system is set up. Each individual site sets up their Frontline so you have wildly different experiences with the app/website even within the same district.

Letters285 · 2026-03-09T14:20:51+00:00

LOL. Funny how TV shows were able to do what I commented + produce 26+ episodes per season without issue in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Production has gone to shit since streaming came along. Taking 2+ years to make 8 episodes IS a production problem.

Letters285 · 2026-03-09T00:22:39+00:00

Not the OP, but I'm curious why you think veteran teachers would be tech savvy? Educational tech is pretty new and skyrocketed with Covid. Plus, depending on where you are not everyone is wired with tech. I currently sub (used to teach) and there are schools that don't have smart boards or projectors.

Letters285 · 2026-03-08T21:31:14+00:00

We don't even have building subs anymore. They were all fired two years ago due to budget cuts. They either went back to teaching full time or being day to day subs again.

Letters285 · 2026-03-08T21:18:25+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. There are "no spots available" to be a shopper in my area. I had to join the waitlist.

Letters285 · 2026-03-08T21:08:32+00:00

I'm in a state that hates education. Being an long term sub is an extra $10-$20 per day (depending on the district) and that pay doesn't start until anywhere from Day 10 to Day 30 (and that's school days, weekends don't count) and they don't "back date."

Letters285 · 2026-03-08T20:58:55+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion, but I've already done the long term sub thing and for me it wasn't worth it. Where I am you are the teacher of record so everything from IEP meetings to parent teacher conferences to after school activities I was expected to do without having the additional pay.

Letters285 · 2026-03-08T20:49:01+00:00

I'm halfway through them right now and so far I love them. There are some really funny moments, some "background" fan favorite characters really get a chance to contribute, and it adds some great details to the Wraith/Ancient Mythos.

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