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I had a bit of a holiday today. I volunteered to join a committee to review reading intervention materials for the ginormous textbook adoption this year. Not surprisingly, there hasn't been any intervention materials for the high school. More on that later...

Since I was to be in a meeting all day, the district hired a substitute for my classes. I dutifully prepared an activity that tied into our current reading, but required little in the way of actual teaching. I had been preparing for a sub who was rumored to "hate every student in the high school," "dislike any type of noise" and "once suspended an entire class." I was a tad worried when I heard this. Well, he called in sick, so sub #2 was called in. Sub #2 brought some sort of huge binder into the room and proceded to read it for the entire day. This person did hand out the packets and put up the overheads (but didn't bother to pull the screen up after each class, so they could see the entry task). As far as I can tell - or heard, the sub never looked up from the binder otherwise. I suppose I should just call it a free day and be done with it.

I'll also have to take a qwuick inventory tomorrow morning.

The meeting went very well and quick - I actually left before school got out and the sun was shining beautifully !

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