The 4th grade class is a rough class anyways. I have been in there multiple times as a traveling aide, but never alone. Thankfully, there was a detailed schedule of what the kids needed to do. Within the first five minutes of class, I had a boy throw away the work he needed to be doing. When I told him to pull it out of the trash, he spit on every piece of work. Because of that, I wanted to send him to work in the counselor's office where bad children go, but I could not get him to go there. No one was answering in the office and I could not leave the class alone and bring him. So this whole time he is causing a huge disturbance and running in and out of the classroom. The SPED aides would not help me just escort him down to the office, so they told me to call his grandma who works in the school. I did that, and the boy took off running through the school. Grandma did find him and he ended up in the office until right before lunch. I let him come back the last 30 minutes and he was good, but he did something during lunch and got sent home.
I got the class through every assignment and only had five who were really disrespectful (to each other and me). The teacher next door came in and yelled at them for being noisy and disturbing her class. She came by randomly to make sure they were behaving. I had another friend come by just to check on if they were listening to me. I had to send another student away for destruction of property in the hall and not listening. I somehow made a boy break down and start screaming, crying, and kicking in the gym because I wanted him to wait 2 minutes before getting a ball because he was not listening to me. I shut the door to the ball room and he went nuts. Three adults came rushing in to see what the tantrum was about. Then the principal got involved and wanted to know if I wanted the kid back in class. The kid got over it, but then at the end of school was climbing on something and fell and started crying again for 5 minutes. He was not hurt long term, but it was a bad fall. For random information, this is the boy who tried to steal from my apartment in August. After school he was peering in my windows and waving at me.
While I think the 4th graders were better behaved than the middle schoolers Monday and Tuesday, the teacher was not happy that five of them were pretty bad. He had the five give me a public apology for being disrespectful.
Now Friday was a half day. I did not think I was working, so I was getting pizza rolls ready for the 7th graders pizza party. But I guess the planned sub for 5th grade never showed up, and no one noticed until the bell rang and there was no teacher. So I was asked to sub. Those kids are always good so I said yes. But I had no sub plan, no work sheets, no schedule, nothing. So I had them do some multiplication, took them to the library to find books, had reading time, computer lab, then we just watched a movie the rest of the time. I felt like a slacker teacher, but I could not find anything for them to work on. I did grab a geography word search from another teacher and they did that as well.
It is weird an aide or native did not sub for the teachers. They make $5 more an hour for doing it, while I do not because I am on the 6 month probation period. That is why I rarely sub for a teacher other than my boyfriend.