Brevity by Dan Thompson for August 23, 2013

I substitute teach a lot. When I take attendance, the first thing I say is “OK, let’s make this easy. Everybody who’s not here, raise your hand…” Some get it right away, and shoot their hands up, others look like deer in the headlights….

Haha, lets add the last names too.

Varnes! Varnes! I’m not here!

Well, that’s what they tell me…or something like that.

All the names of the staff are probably “Roo” ?

The teacher looks a little jumpy…

One summer I had five Charleses on my fire crew of fifteen. Ugh!

I wonder if the teacher’s name is ‘Kanga?’

Thanks, Radish….

I’m SO glad some of us are here, wherever we are, and not all of us…. er you…. are there… or at least not all the way.There, I mean.Wherever THAT is.

PerkyCat….the last thing Varnes is is “all right.”

Honestly…. that boy ain’t right.

Don’t tell him I told you, OK?

Rooeuller? Rooeuller? Rooeuller?

OK, I heard that Susan……PerkyCat, you’re absolutely right. A good sub gives out the message that everything’s going to be OK, because some students suffer anxiety when there’s a sub…They’re afraid that the jerks in the class are going to do things to get the whole class in trouble. I just let them know only the bad actors get in trouble in my classroom..

Yes, and when I’m a sub, it is MY classroom….