Monday, April 28, 2008

My best minute subbing.

Being a high school substitute teacher is not a job usually associated with the word 'fun', but today for about a minute it came close. I was at Brighton high school, not with my favorite calculus kids (the ones who call me Jason Bourne), but with another teacher's classes. During first period while we were working on homework, in walks about 20 students, who I instantly recognize as my calculus kids. The word spread that I was there today so they all asked if they could leave their class for a minute, brought me cookies, talked to me, wrote 'Jason Bourne rocks!' on the board, and then left. The class I was teaching looked at me wondering what just happened. I said "Well at least SOME students like me..." (they were not the best class). Throughout the rest of the day, other students from my calculus classes would pop in one at a time to say hi. Some days I'm even tempted to be a full time teacher, until I look at the pay scale.



4 comments:

apyknowzitall said...

That's pretty cool Dr. Nick. My math teacher sucked big time. It didn't help either that he was also my cross country coach.

Personally, I think that if it's going to make you happy you should try teaching for a while, at least until a big guaranteed get rich money making project comes along. Yeah, yeah it will take forever to pay off whatever student loans you have but think of the positive influence you'll have on kids.

Nick said...

I have the same assignment today, and they just came in again and gave me more cookies. Awesome. (One of my current students just said: "What the heck?!")

Muriel said...

Gotta get out of Utah to get paid squat for teaching. Come to Idaho, Matt was tempted a little.

apyknowzitall said...

So are you going to stick with teaching or what? Curious minds who are trying to find every excuse not do homework are dying to know