Subbing

I've finished student teaching and am subbing in middle school and elementary school classrooms. It's definitely interesting and the kids definitely take advantage of a sub! I have to say that today was my most disturbing day subbing so far.

Yesterday I was at the middle school and the art teacher found me because he had heard I would be subbing for him today. He specifically wanted to warn me about one of his 8th grade classes because there is a group of boys who are a little rowdy. Well, they were, but because I expected it, it was no big deal. He failed to warn me about his sixth grade class. They were such babies! They didn't know where anything was, they whined that they didn't know how to do things, and they left a huge mess of glitter and feathers even though I know I saw some of them cleaning up. Normal stuff, but that was not the creepy part... There are six tables. One table had about ten kids sitting around it (there was no seating chart, I think they get to just sit whereever), four of the tables had 3-5 kids at each, and then there was one table with just one kid. I thought it was odd, but was just like, whatever - there's often a loner. So, I was walking around checking out what the kids were working on. I stopped to talk to the loner - about his sculpture. While we were talking, he was scratching his legs and commented, "Bedbugs. We're going to get an exterminator. One time I had so many bites on my back that my mom said she had never seen anything like it." I stayed a good 6 feet or more away from this kid, but I'm still itching hours later!