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Since I was to be in a meeting all day, the district hired a substitute for my classes.

And thus my aversion to having subs in my class was born. Or rather the unknown factor of them - the planner in me cringes at the thought of being off schedule. Of course, I could be flexible, but flexible is much harder.

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Lady Strathconn said…
I can totally relate to this substitute thing.

I teach Literacy (reading, writing, spelling, skills) for 1.5 hours everyday. It takes me 3 hours to write out lesson plans for missing one day of Literacy. But it only takes me 3 hours to plan the whole week for myself.
9:26 AM
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