Laws of Gravity

It was the penultimate day of school, and I had caught a gig covering a special ed co-teacher. Her sixth period class was eighth grade Engli...

Occasionally, I'll take an assignment out of sheer curiosity. When eSports popped up, I just had to know. What was this class? It turned...

Towards the end of the day, I like to muse aloud about what I'm thinking for the plans for the next school day. It was Thursday afternoo...

It was about an hour before the end of the day. Vera (instructional assistant) suggested we put on some music. I opened up the floor for re...

It was Thursday. We were watching CNN 10 . They did a story on the sun's eleven year solar cycle (as we're reaching a busy time, so...

The students like music. Jonas especially. His favorite band is Big Time Rush .  Penelope likes One Direction . (Although, I introduced her...

Pretty much the first thing in the morning, the class exercises. One day is yoga. Another is weights. And a third day they can choose to dan...

On Wednesdays, the continuation high school has a thing called " advisory ". Back in the day, it was when the "advisors"...

Last week was Thanksgiving break, so this is from the week before last. Chemistry. I was on day four of a four-day assignment. They had a re...

On what ended up being my last subbing day for the school year, I was back in the math class at the continuation high school. It's be...

Eighth grade science. They were to watch a video on genetics and answer questions on a handout. ( Here's the video if you're int...

When I took over the journalism class (because the teacher was retiring), I was told that hopefully the counselor wouldn't add any st...

Apparently I've never written about Earvin before. Funny. He's been a thorn in my side for a while. I guess he's not done any...

I dislike Christmas music. Eleven years of working for the evil toy store took much of my Christmas spirit. (And Christmas music... Burne...

After a day covering a completely different class, I was asked to cover a 6th period in the "functional academy". These are the...

Health class. Fourth period. A large group of mostly freshmen. I passed out the assignment. They were doing it. There was a bit of a lo...

In the chaos of passing period, I wasn't sure from where the blaring music came. Someone walking in playing music loudly via a speake...

Middle school math. Special ed. It was a fairly straightforward assignment. I went over the explanation and gave them time to practice....

I don't know why this is, but students seem to work better when they have music playing in the background. They're not allowed to li...

"WHY IS IT SO QUIET IN HERE?" Okay, he wasn't shouting, exactly, but it felt kind of like shouting when he spoke loudly in a...