Substitute Teachers

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Cortney:  2-15-96

Nicole Kenning,

Hey, howdy, hello, hi!  How’s it going?  Not much here in Mrs. Pritchard’s class.  We have a substitute.  It’s awesome.

*anyways*

What are you doing right now?  Who do you like?  I like Cole a lot.  Who did you have your eye on?  How come you won’t tell me?

I

LOVE

COLE!

Well, gotta go.

Love always,

Cortney

W/B this period!

Poor substitute teachers.  Occasionally you got stuck with a crazy, but for the most part if you had a sub you knew you weren’t doing shit that day.  We always assumed it was because they were idiots and had no idea what they were doing.  Looking back I can see the truth – most of them are unemployed former teachers just looking for a scrap of a job.  They know what they’re doing, but the kids are assholes and won’t respect them because they know it’s just temporary.  I can’t begin to describe the crap my peers put these people through.  In high school there was even a walk out on one of our subs.  The whole class just got up and left.  I didn’t want to participate, but I also didn’t want to be the only nerdy bird staying behind.  I was already hurting for cool points from the time I stuck up for my geometry teacher when this one guy kept making fun of her.  It was the crowning achievement in my quest for dork-hood.  Whatever, the joke’s on them because I made the highest grade ever in that class – 104! GO ME!  Man, I’m a loser…