My daughter's school still doesn't have a real English teacher. Why? Because every time they get a substitute who says they are going to be the regular teacher, for some reason or another, two weeks go by and poof, no more English Teacher. They've gone through several substitutes over the past few months. I wish they'd put my daughter in another English class.
The latest version of their English teacher is some sort of college professor, according to the Little Lady the teacher says that she is not used to dealing with students who are so 'energetic' and doesn't know how to handle them. She would send several of them down to the principals office at once and then sometimes she'd not even punish the kid who walked out of the classroom, walked around to the windows and was looking in. The kid then walked back into the classroom and sat down as if he'd never left the room. She didn't believe the other kids. How could she have missed someone leaving the room?
I know it's hard to deal with 30 kids. It's why I don't volunteer at school. I rarely go in for any events that are during the school day - but I was working at the time, so it's a given that I usually couldn't take the time off because I had to make sure that everyone was in the office in order to have a day off. Yes, this is extremely true.
So if there is an English teacher out there that is used to dealing with 12 and 13 year olds who aren't always so well behaved, please come to Northern California, we need you, desperately.
