Songbird76
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That makes sense. I'm sure it was great for people who wanted a steady job, but maybe not necessarily always the same position. Do your subs have to have a degree in education or anything? I don't think ours required an actual college diploma, but they preferred you had some college. I'm not sure how many of the subs were actually college graduates, let alone in an education field, which might be why I got called nearly every day. I suppose qualified subs probably had a bit of priority, but I don't know. I actually kind of liked going to different schools. It was always something new and different, and if you had a really awful day, you were somewhere else the next. I didn't particularly like subbing in secondary schools. I still looked like one of the students, so teachers didn't always see me as an "equal" and high school kids are AWFUL to subs. With elementary kids, they are easily impressed...all I had to do was use mnemonic devices to remember their names and by the end of the day they loved me. Easy peezy.They are employed full-time by the district and show up to their contract hours just like teachers. They get benefits and everything. Since there is always a need for subs, they always have a job. But if they didn't have a placement for the day, they would help out with other things. But if a teacher needs off, the full-time subs are automatically placed somewhere. Then if more subs are needed, they go with someone who is just filling in for the day.