Terrorist Cakes
03-03-2006, 01:06
Uggh. Today, three out of my four classes had subs, who were all borderline incompetent.
In Portfolio, our sub (an old CAPP teacher I was under the impression had been fired due to sexual harrassment claims) insisted on spending over an hour telling some long-winded, pointless story about a friend of his who was addicted to Hash. All I wanted to do was complete my self-guided work, but apperantly that was too much to ask.
While falling asleep attempting to find some coherancy in his story, I noted an ambulance outside. At lunch, I asked my friends about it, and one of them said her English sub had passed out mid-lecture. I laughed for a bit before realizing that I was slated to have that same teacher right after the break. Hearing the sub had been rushed to the hospital, I figured I would have our grumpy vice-principal instead.
Apperently not. The fainting sub decided to stick around and attempt to teach. And by that I mean she took it upon herself to explain the entire English language to us. We're an Honours English 11 class, and she decided we needed to know that "is" is a verb. No duh. At the end of class, I knew the cause of her fainting spell: a case of acute redundancy.
I was already aggrevated enough after that, but things got worse when I arrived at Foods. We also had a subsitute, one that I'm not terribly fond of. She handed out crosswords and asked us to use our textbooks to find the answers. Twenty minutes of sheer confusion later, she announced that she had forgotten to give us the handout that would help us find the answers. What a waste of time. I shouldn't have even gone to school today.
Sorry for ranting. If you have some horror stories about subs (or mallicious pranks I can play on the English sub tomorrow), recount them. If not, go debate evolution.
NOTE: I don't actually hate all substitutes. Just these three. And a few others.
In Portfolio, our sub (an old CAPP teacher I was under the impression had been fired due to sexual harrassment claims) insisted on spending over an hour telling some long-winded, pointless story about a friend of his who was addicted to Hash. All I wanted to do was complete my self-guided work, but apperantly that was too much to ask.
While falling asleep attempting to find some coherancy in his story, I noted an ambulance outside. At lunch, I asked my friends about it, and one of them said her English sub had passed out mid-lecture. I laughed for a bit before realizing that I was slated to have that same teacher right after the break. Hearing the sub had been rushed to the hospital, I figured I would have our grumpy vice-principal instead.
Apperently not. The fainting sub decided to stick around and attempt to teach. And by that I mean she took it upon herself to explain the entire English language to us. We're an Honours English 11 class, and she decided we needed to know that "is" is a verb. No duh. At the end of class, I knew the cause of her fainting spell: a case of acute redundancy.
I was already aggrevated enough after that, but things got worse when I arrived at Foods. We also had a subsitute, one that I'm not terribly fond of. She handed out crosswords and asked us to use our textbooks to find the answers. Twenty minutes of sheer confusion later, she announced that she had forgotten to give us the handout that would help us find the answers. What a waste of time. I shouldn't have even gone to school today.
Sorry for ranting. If you have some horror stories about subs (or mallicious pranks I can play on the English sub tomorrow), recount them. If not, go debate evolution.
NOTE: I don't actually hate all substitutes. Just these three. And a few others.