Here’s the deal — the person wasn’t a freaking teacher.
Teacher Banned After Ripping Out Boy’s Insulin Pump – Yahoo! News
I don’t have any respect at all for substitute teachers after having taught in the classroom for 14. All I have ever gotten a sub to do, today include is babysit. That’s after making sure I had left transparencies with what I did with the earlier classes.
Not only that, but everything that wasn’t nailed down was stolen out of my classroom when I had to be out for two days, and the administration ended up sending one of them home and calling in a second substitute.
I never really expected a sub to be able to deal with my computer science students and was always careful to leave something they could do on their own, but the subs might as well as not have been in the classroom. One day, memory was stolen out of a computer, and fortunately another student reported the theft AND reported who did it which is much more than the sub did.
One time a sub played an “R” movie to my students instead of letting them work on the computers, which REALLY bugged me. Both the movie part AND the “R” rated part. The computers put off too much light and he couldn’t see the movie when they were on.
Anyway, almost every time I see a “Teacher does something stupid” headline, it was a stupid sub, the majority of which have never been certified, probably don’t have a college degree, and spent a weekend in training.
And sadly, often it was retired certified teachers that “baby sat”.
FYI: I did sub once. And I actually TAUGHT the students when I subbed.