A Few School Stories From Recent Days
1. I subbed 8th grade math Friday. Not sure how I missed this kid, but in last period in walks a student who, at 13 years old is 6'7" tall. He told me he was 6'4" last year. Grew 3" in a year, so likely not close to done growing. I hear he's a pretty good athlete so hoping he ends up going to college for free.
His best pal had yet to hit 5 feet tall. So there's around a 20" difference in height between the 2 of them.
Both really nice kids.
2. Going to a new high school tomorrow for physics & chemistry. There are 228 students in the whole school. I have never been in a high school that small.
3. School District in the large town to our north is so hurting for subs they raised the daily rate from $150 to $200 per day. They called me, not the other way around. They got my name off the regional office list. I'm going to drop off my docs Tuesday.
Apparently, they had a rush of retirements the last 4 years. Covid made some retire early, others who were talked into staying now have no immediate interest in subbing. A group of actual teachers had been the sub pool, doing 4 or 5 days per week, but those folks took those positions opened by retirements. So, their sub pool evaporated.
They're particularly desperate for subs willing to do math & science. That's all I do. Should work out OK.
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