Free Ice Cream - Not a chance

Sub jobs have been pretty limited this month. I'm not sure why; maybe its because teachers know that they have breaks in their near future. Well it means that I don't really have the option to turn down any jobs that are available. So I accepted another Special Education assignment today. I figured it couldn't be that bad because it was only a half day assignment (12:30 to 4:00). It ended up being even easier than that because the from 12:30 to 1:30 the teacher had her lunch break, which now became my lunch break. I only had students from 1:30 to 3:00 (because students had recess at the end of the day and went back to their homerooms). So in terms of the amount of work, it was a pretty cushy assignment.

Was it perfect? No, Even though it was a special education class I think in actuality it was their class of chronic liars. It was a small group of students, of the 12 students in the class, at least 8 of them tried feeding me some line of bullshit. Lies about other kids behavior. Lies about what class they were supposed to be in. One of the kids even tried telling me that I was supposed to give them ice cream at the end of the day, because that is what the regular teacher does. I really wonder if they thought that I looked that naive? Obviously they did. But needless to say, no one got any free ice cream today.

The other annoying thing about this class was that they were throwing around the word "gay" and "faggot" at each other left and right. So many of the kids were doing it that there wasn't anything that could really be done to put a stop to it. Name calling annoys me, it is so stupid, it snowballs once it starts, and there is very little that a substitute can do to stop it. When I was a regular teacher I could make the lives of the name callers very uncomfortable. Uncomfortable to the point that it wasn't in their interest to let me hear the name calling. But that process usually took a couple of weeks to work out, as a substitute I don't have that luxury.