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'It is 8:05 in the morning and your telephone rings just as you are about to step into the shower. " Hello? This is C .C.I. calling. An emergency has arisen and you are needed at school today. Please be there by 8:30 in order to receive your assignment. Oh, and by the way, bring your jogging shoes, a lab coat and don't wear anything that might be affected by welding sparks. You will be needing them."
Is this the script from a James Bond movie? Didn't you see an episode like this on Magnum PI once? Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! This is the most common way that a supply teacher receives a call to report to duty in your classroom. Perhaps your teacher has become ill or a family emergency has arisen and suddenly this person must fill his shoes with very little notice and even less preparation time. Of course, every class that he or she must take is always filled with extremely well-behaved students, eager to assist the instructor and most anxious to learn that day ' s lesson. Right? Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Now come on, we all must admit that at some time in our academic careers, we have either acted as an instigator or, at least assisted, in performing an activity on your supply teacher that you wouldn't even con-
sider carrying out on your regular teacher. Right? Right! After all, isn't there a law written somewhere that it's okay to do this because, after all, they'd never have the nerve to report you and, besides, most likely they don't know
who you are anyway!
Several students at C. C. I. were asked to recall
their experiences with supply teachers. In other words, 'WHA T'S THE WORST THING YOU EVER DID TO YOUR SUPPLY TEACHER?'
" W e toilet papered HER desk and HER CHAIR! Only to find out that it was a HE!" - Matt MacLean
" W e used to switch instruments in music class" -Rob Holroyd
" We would sign names of people that weren't there in order to cover for them" - Lori Prouse "Somebody (Ted McLeod) jumped out of the 2nd storey math room when the supply wasn't looking. He landed in a snowbank and ran back inside and into his seat and the teacher didn't
even notice!" - Rachel Tatham
"Everybody would switch seats! " - Kim
Hanley
"W e had one of the guys in our class blacken
one of his front teeth and when we arrived to class late, we explained to the supply teacher that he'd knocked out his tooth in phy. ed and the 3 of us had to take him to the nurse's room!- Mr. Hunwicks
"We never really did anything wrong. Some bad things , but never WRONG! " - Margot Minardi
"There is no one named 'Jim Shorts' in this class! ", exclaims Mrs. Hicky, one of our supp- ly teachers.
staff
Mr. Cliff Martin- 6'4" - Special Education
Mr. Bob Pommer- 6'4" -Science
Mr. Bob Hirst c 6'41h" - However, he has been known to extend to 7'3" when making a jump shot! - Physical Education and Business Education
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