I’m going to go ahead and admit that the title to this post has little to do with the actual post. Disappointed? Too bad, you’re here so just keep reading.
Fun fact: Substitute Teachers are also known as Visiting Teachers! Okay maybe not a euphemism up there with concentration camp or turn a trick, but certainly false advertising. “Visiting” has a positive connotation right? Like there should be a welcome party or something. Please don’t get me wrong, the girl who walked into class saying “not this bitch again” was charming, even if she did lack a bit of warmth. Mostly, though, the word implies that I want to be there, that I want to spend some quality time with a whole bunch of obnoxious teenagers.
I wasn’t always so anti-teenager. There was a long period of time when I believed I liked them. I thought small children were the awful ones, with their diapers and drool and lack of conversation skills. But I was wrong – teenagers are still children, they just have a slightly better vocabulary (a topic for another day) and they’re often bigger than me and therefore that much less under my control.
Getting back to the point, the title isn’t all bad. An example: “Okay guys, let’s watch this really interesting History Channel Biography of Joseph Stalin. Oh what’s that? You’d rather jump on your chairs, have a water fight, make out with your girlfriends, and literally throw your textbooks out the window? Well, it’s pretty important that you learn about the past so you can understand what’s going on in the world around you, not to mention pass your test…buuut what the hell. I’m just visiting.”
