stories came flooding in.

Here’s what some had to say:

1.

One such example given to me was a substitute who would just go to sleep.

A person wearing a plaid shirt is asleep at a desk next to an open laptop and papers

I barely believed it.

Once I was teaching full-time, I had a sub come in for a day.

I believed it then."

A young boy wearing a face mask washes his hands at a sink in a public restroom, illustrating hygiene practices in shared workspaces

“I would occasionally give out starbursts to my 4th graders.

Bitch ate all the pink ones.”

u/GAL_9000

3.

A modern classroom with numerous desks arranged in rows, each with textbooks and notebooks. The whiteboard at the front displays geometric shapes and diagrams

“I was a teacher’s assistant while in college.

The teacher and I took a week-long workshop and had a sub.

The worst thing she did was not let the kids go potty.

Two green parrots perched on a branch, engaging with each other

It was in kindergarten, and she said all the kids going to the bathroom were interrupting the class.

One girl wet herself.

The little girl ended up facing repercussions at home, too.

Open notebooks, a stack of books, pens, pencils, and a calculator on a table, suggesting a workspace or study area. No people in the image

It was devastating to hear about.”

“They accused a student of stealing something that the aide had put away.

Security eventually got called and took several students out.

A young boy with a hearing aid communicates in sign language with a woman in the background, indicative of an inclusive and accessible learning environment

When I arrived at school the next morning, the students were waiting for me at the door.

I promised them never to get that sub again.

They usually behaved for me.”

A person with a continuous glucose monitor on their arm is smiling while looking at their phone, relaxing on a couch with plants in the background

u/Altrano

5.

I still don’t have a sharpener for my room.

They let the kids go through my things in my cabinets and desk.

A Japanese maneki-neko (beckoning cat) figurine with its paw raised, wearing a collar and a bell, holding a gold coin

I lost a bunch of stuff that way."

“They re-arranged my room.

Not in a ‘moved Student A away from Student B and put her by Student C’ way.

A group of people is seated in a training room at computer workstations, listening to an instructor at the front of the room

u/dr239

7.

She decided to show my students videos of animals giving birth on YouTube.

I taught English…”

8.

Children focus on their schoolwork at desks in a classroom. A girl in the foreground appears frustrated, with her head in hands

I teach K-5, and I specifically didnt tell the kids because I didnt want them to worry.

u/Deemster19

9.

Also, they lost all the book assignments for four classes.

I asked him to collect them so I could correct them at home.

Also, he didn’t bother grading.

He’s not completely helpless, but when it comes to heavy things, he needs help.

u/[deleted]

11.

“They asked a deaf kid to take off his hearing aids.

Kids tried to tell her he needed them, but to her, they ‘look like headphones.’

She cried when was confronted by another teacher.”

The teacher did not come back the next day."

u/TonkaButt

13.

“I had a Grade 1/2 class last year, and one student had diabetes.

Lets call him Adam.

So Adam had a cellphone that beeps when his blood sugar is too low/high.

Its connected to the monitor in his arm/hip.

Pale and sweating, the whole works.

The EA then LOSES IT on the substitute, demanding the phone.”

I was out and thought nothing about it.

I returned the following day and went looking for the eggs, only to find them missing.

u/teacheroftroubles

15.

“I had a cool Chinese Lucky Cat that went missing after I had a sub.

It was gone when I returned the next day.”

“I’m not a teacher, but I vividly remember one incident of having a substitute in kindergarten.

I tried to get up only to realize I couldnt move and just laid back.

This sub starts yelling at me for being attention-seeking and basically tries to pull me up.

Long story short, I’m horribly allergic to penicillin, and my kidneys were failing.”

u/aliyah_200018

17.

He also kicked his feet up on the desk and read the paper the entire day.

All without saying a word.

He disappeared at lunch and came back smelling like weed.

These are all reports I got from my students the next day.

This guy was a retired teacher, too."

I complained to the sub-office, and that teacher never subbed for my building again."