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>Substitute Teachers.. I was a very successful >substitute teacher for several years in the Baltimore >Public Schools System. The Irony of it was that the >High School I attended had litterally thrown me out in >my junior year. I was one of the worst students in the >all male High School at that time. I was once told >that I held the school's all time record for >suspensions. I helped traumitize an older French >teacher, with a hand full of other bad students, to >the point that he had a complete breakdown and was >admitted to a local phsyciatric institution. He even >sent the principal a letter blaming his condition on >me and two other students. When they through me out, I >was failing 5 out of 5 classes. It was so bad that my >parents refused to attend any more meetings with the >vice-principal in charge of discipline. After a winter >of hard labor, outdoor jobs in freezing weather, I >came to my senses, went to night school and made up >all of the classes that I had failed and entered the >same High School in a big city wide Drop Back In >Program for my senior year. I made the Honor Roll and >given a special exemption to enter a College for >teachers. To earn money I started substitute teaching >and was assigned to my old High School. You can >imagine the startled looks of my old junior year >teachers the first day I entered the Teacher's Lounge >to eat lunch. Some thought I had returned for revenge >until they discovered that I was teaching there. I was >great at subbing and the word got around fast. Several >regular teachers started asking me questions about >controlling the classroom. I never had a discipline >problem because I knew all of the worst games and how >to spot them developing. I developed a technique for >the first time I would be assigned a particular class. >I would purposely come a few minutes late to give the >class time to find out they were going to have a >substitute and get pretty roudy. I would then briskly >walk past the front door and enter through the rear >door and slam it loudly. Then in my best drill sargent >voice command them to settle down and take a seat. My >line " I don't care what seat you take as long as it >isn't mine" usually got a muffled chuckle as they >quickly slid into their seats. If anyone hesitated or >continued to talk, I would get right in their face and >loudly, but not screaming, demand if they had a >problem. Fron that point on control was never a >problem. Especially if I had a good work plan for the >class that kept everybody invovled. They school system >kept calling me for two years after I stopped subbing >to try and get me back. They even offered me a class >of a teacher that was going to be out for the year and >said that if that went well I could be a full time >regular teacher as long as I continued to take college >classes towards a teaching degree.
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