This is possibly my worst day subbing ever. Yes, even worse than the 3rd grade class from Hell. I didn’t think that was possible.
It started off relatively well. I caught a kid chewing gum in one of the first two classes. He said he didn’t have anything, then went to throw it away later. I sent him out of the room for lying to me. Usually when I catch people with gum I just have them throw it away and that’s the end of it. Which is hilarious when I watch them put the gum in their mouth and then they immediately have to throw it out.
The next person who had to leave was eating candy. I asked her to get rid of it, she wouldn’t. I asked again and she said she’d swallowed it. Normally I would have just left that in the note and been done with it and let the teacher deal with it the next day. But she also yelled at me asking if I wanted her to throw it up. So she got sent to the office.
In the next class (right before lunch) a kid decided that he was going to leave early to go to lunch. They have a study hall during lunch but the teacher didn’t leave anything about letting people out early for that so I wasn’t going to let anyone go. This kid said out loud that when it got to be time for study hall people to leave he was going to leave. I told him that if he left the room there would be a referral waiting for him. He didn’t think I’d do it, he was wrong.
I also called down to the office so they could send someone up to make sure he got down to the principal since it was right before lunch and I didn’t think he’d actually take the referral down there.
While we were waiting for whoever that was going to be[1] i heard this voice behind me. They weren’t saying anything about how stupid that kid was for leaving or anything like that. If that was it I would have thought it was hilarious. Instead, the voice was saying that he was going to jump me for not letting them leave for lunch early.
It was kind of funny when the principal got there. The kid who decided to leave was told that he was just going to be sent home and to go wait at the principal’s office. The other kid of a serious talking to as well.
Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice… the kid who was kicked out at the beginning of the day had a much happier end to his story. The room he was supposed to be in had nobody in it. So he went to the lobby area outside the assistant principals’ offices and did his punishment there. He brought it back and gave me a story basically saying that he didn’t realize I’d want him to spit out candy too and not just gum[2]. For some reason on this day though I went with it. I gave him the paper that I would normally leave for the teacher so he’d know I couldn’t do anything with it and told him that he was lucky.
- I didn’t request anyone specific but I had a pretty good idea on who they’d send. [↩]
- A load of crap if you ask me. [↩]