I don’t mind recess duty either, but there are times when a person just has to deal with biological needs! Fortunately most of the places I work share recess duty for that very reason. One teacher will have the first ten minutes and another teacher the second ten.

But some things, like a different schedule or really anything having to do with rain, happen often enough that I think it isn’t asking too much for the teacher to just have instructions for that sort of thing in the sub folder from the start.

I also had a situation where it unexpectedly rained one day. The teacher had left me the plan to follow during a regular day, and nowhere in the room did she have a bell schedule posted for a rainy day. Just as I was getting ready to have the kids clean up for lunch, I got a phone call asking why they weren’t in the lunchroom. Then I found out since it was rainy-day schedule, I’d only get 30 minutes for my own lunch, starting about 15 mintues prior to the time I found out about it.

So, yeah….I hear you!

I know I’m stereoytping with my description. But for me, that’s usually the way it works out.

That’s awesome the whole extra pay thing for fifteen minutes!

Snow days are the same–how great! A day off! But not really because as subs, we don’t get paid if school isn’t in session.

Flexibility is great. But it comes with it’s own set of consequences, too.

Good post!

Most of the time, we sub each other’s classes (we’re a teeny-tiny school, so we can do that), so we don’t often have outside staff coming in, but on the rare occasion that we do, i want to be ready…