“How did the presentations go?” I asked my class this afternoon.
They all started talking at once, not about the presentations, but about the substitute teacher.
I have two conferences this month, so I scheduled student presentations for the two days I’d be gone–something that’s easy for a sub to supervise. I didn’t get to choose my sub–it’s someone I’ve never met, actually, a full-timer at SCC, who usually teaches on the Sacramento campus.
Their complaints were numerous–she started roll before class started and then “tardy-shamed” people who weren’t actually late. She cut off their presentations and was strict with questions. She criticized how I wrote the presentation instructions (I was surprised she did something like that in front of them). She made a student take his baseball cap off.
“Well, you’ll see her on Thursday, for the next group of students to do presentations while I’m gone.”
They groaned.
“Are you going to wear your hat?” I asked the student who always wears a hat.
Another student: “Maybe we should all wear hats.”
They got really excited.
“Could we?”
“I can’t condemn peaceful protest. . . but please make sure you actually get to do your presentations.”
Tune in next week . . .
That would be awesome if they all wore hats.