over the years the past three years to
be exact
I've grown a little disillusioned with
substitute teaching and in this video I
want to explain to you why I quit hello
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3 years since I started working
exclusively in the school system and you
know that's about two and a half years
too long there are many small reasons
why I decided not to return to
substitute teaching this school year but
there are three big ones that I think
you might find valuable in your own life
at some point in the future the first
and the biggest reason why I quit
substitute teaching is because I just
didn't believe in it anymore this is
somewhat of a cliche but it is very true
if you don't believe in the thing that
you're doing then eventually it's gonna
drive you insane if you're a regular
viewer of this channel then you already
know what I'm talking about
school school school is a joke and in my
three years of working as a substitute
teacher
I wasn't shy about sharing that
viewpoint with teachers and students you
see when I wanted to be a full-time
teacher and I was actually applying for
full-time jobs I thought that my
experience could be different I thought
that once I had my own classroom I could
teach the students the things they need
to know to succeed in the world as it is
today from semester to semester year to
year subbing in the same classes for the
same teachers I noticed that there were
none of them making a solid effort to
innovate the teaching profession and
it's not always the teachers fault
they're just as restricted as the
students are teachers have no freedom
that teach the things they want teachers
have no freedom that changed the lesson
plan from day to day teachers have no
freedom to help students succeed in the
21st century they have to follow the
nonsensical directions that come from
above and by extension as a substitute
so would I I don't believe in that
though as is evident by this entire
channel a while back I made of
asking if I was living a lie by saying
that schools a joke while going to work
in a school every single day I knew it
was just a matter of time before my lack
of belief in school kind of ruined the
whole experience for me and that
happened at the end of last school year
and yes over the past three years there
have been some really positive
experiences that I had while substitute
teaching and I know there's a small
group of students that understood the
message I was trying to bring and their
lives may be better for it at the end of
the day though it's not healthy to keep
doing something that you don't really
believe in and I really don't believe in
the school system the second big reason
why I quit substitute teaching is
because for me it became a dead-end job
I knew I didn't want to be a teacher
anymore I knew I didn't want to work in
any other area of the school and I had
learned pretty much all there was to
learn about being a substitute I knew
what to do I knew what not to do and I
could recognize certain students from a
mile away
and I don't mean that I knew their faces
I just meant based on their behavior I
knew what kind of student they were
gonna be and I knew what tactics to use
to deal with that type of student really
though if you substitute teach for a
year you're taking a job every single
day then you're gonna know pretty much
all there is to know about substitute
teaching and after a while it just gets
to be boring you see the same patterns
over and over and over again in fact the
reason why I stuck with it so long is
because it was fun in some ways it was
fun to go into the classes where I knew
the students knew that school was a joke
but they still did the work anyway
because they're just playing along with
the game that sort of class was fun so I
guess what I'm saying is I stuck with it
so long because of the people the people
that I worked with that is the students
and some of the teachers were pretty
good people and the pretty good people
far outweighed the pretty bad people but
that's not enough
stay in a dead-end job there was nowhere
to go either up or down and that's why I
quit and the third big reason why I quit
substitute teaching the money is just
not that great one of the top questions
that I got asked as a substitute was how
much I got paid in the high school that
I worked at the most I got paid 96
dollars a day the two other high schools
that I would go to in the area maybe
once or twice a year I got paid 85 and
90 dollars a day but sticking with that
96 dollar figure because that's where I
worked a 99% of the time that works out
to be about thirteen dollars and seventy
two cents an hour truthfully that is not
bad at all
for something like substitute teaching
it's easy money it's good available
part-time work and you know if you have
your sub certificate you'll never be
unemployed unless you do something
horrible there's a big but though it's
school and a school schedule is not
full-time first school is only in
session for a hundred and eighty days a
year at least in the Northeast United
States secondly in a normal job you
would work Monday through Friday four
times a month so 20 days a week and if
you work Saturdays that's just extra
money in a school system though it's
very rare that you get consecutive
five-day-a-week
weeks there's always some staff meeting
some holiday some school closure
not to mention snow days or other sort
of weather related incidents where you
can't go into work as a substitute
that's the thing that really kills the
income is that you don't get paid unless
you show up which is normal for any job
but as a substitute there's even fewer
chances for you to work because there's
even fewer days that work is even open
that's not to mention that you have to
be lucky like I was to have a district
that was short unsub's where you could
get a job every single day as long as
you click the button on the app and
third there are parts of the school year
that are great as a student I love them
as a student
if you're depending on income from a
school schedule Easter Thanksgiving
Christmas New Year's all of those major
fun holidays you don't make any money so
that $96 a day doesn't really add up and
that's the third big reason why I quit
substitute teaching and who knows I
might wind up doing a sub job here and
there if I have a day off one my regular
full-time job but for the time being
I quit substitute teaching and I'm
wondering if there's anyone out there
that's also quit being a substitute if
you have leave a comment down below and
let me know why you quit and if this was
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