Chapter 3 (109-122)

 





"The district placed substitute teachers into classrooms before completing their fingerprinting and police checks. Finally, several parents filed a lawsuit after reports surfaced that some substitute teachers had felony arrest records and a substitute hit a student"(Page 120). 

        This quote in particular stuck out to me while I was reading the beginning of chapter 3. I am currently enrolled in the Stockton Education program and have my certification to substitute in schools. Getting my certification was a long and tedious process that involved me having to get fingerprinted, my background checked, and having at least 30 college credits. This process took place over the course of months before I got my certification to work as a substitute in a school. So reading that substitutes were hired with essentially no criminal history check and accreditation was shocking and heart breaking to read. Because the district hired such unqualified substitute teachers, the schools were left in shambles. Students were often left to do work by themselves with no help from the substitute teachers. Students could be found roaming the halls, hanging out of windows, and completing no work. Substitutes were often manipulated by students as they had no training in classroom management. Although students were at school, were they really learning? The clear answer is no. Majority of the substitute teachers were not qualified and did not provide enough academic support and classroom management for students to learn effectively. Because of this, students lost on instructional time and many suffered the consequences in their test scores.


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