FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for February 23, 2012

For reasons which are not safe to discuss here, I am glad most of my substitute teachers were reasonably craggy librarians.

Your math teacher was Broom Hilda ?

My math teachers were all overweight coaches.

If I recall right (it’s been a long time), all my math teachers in jr. high and high school were normal and pretty cool. College was a different story altogether

We had one woman who was a kind of utility sub. She might show up in almost any kind of class. We knew her as “Little Hitler”.

When I was in middle school, our band teacher was out sick a lot, and so I never knew if we were going to have a sub or not most days.

Luckily, one of my friends had band class right before lunch and she always gave me the heads up if we had a sub and which one. This was a good thing since there were certain subs who we didn’t like very much and others who were actually decent.

I always wondered why some teachers could control with no effort, and others had no effect. We had one that could walk into a combined meeting of multiple grades – say 450 kids – say “Let’s have it quiet” – and it would be. Another could near throw a tantrum in his class of 20, and its effect would last for maybe 5 seconds.

Andy has apparently forgotten what it’s like to be a teenager, as well as having ever talked with her own daughter before. :P Do they ever show Paige getting a bad report card? Or just Peter and Jason’s?JP Steve: Correct! Of course there was a lot more kite string than the yo-ho had.

Take it from one who’s been there – substitute teaching is one of the worst gigs in the world.

Wow you must have went to the same school as I did! I swear that is my old high school math teacher.

I have to admit she was very good at teaching math too!

Once we had a teacher who looked like she was 90, and we were supposed to finish up “Animal Farm” (George Orwell) and a few kids kept saying strange things that are too inappropriate to mention here, and the teacher never noticed!