Substitute Teacher

The teacher, Mrs. Stewart, who's classroom I'm an aid for was out sick today (as well as Monday) and I had to aid for a sub. (as you can probably guess from the title). On Monday this meant that the class was awful and it was a day that I just had to get through. But today this substitute was different. She must have decided early in her career that she wanted to be a communist because she was definitely in control of that classroom. She had each kid write their name on a paper and if they did something good then we would put a star on that paper. This would actually be a good idea (some positive reinforcement) but the way she did it seemed to be manipulative and tyrannical. I did not like being in her class today, which is weird, because I love my work. Not to leave out the fact that this woman looked and sounded like Number 1 from Monsters, Inc., you know the secretary lady who was always wanting Mike to turn in his paperwork? If anyone thought she would be cool to hang out with, you were wrong. I am so glad that I was put in Mrs. Stewart's room cause she is an excellent teacher without being too over-bearing. The whole day just felt like this sub. was trying to prove her good teacher-ness to me and her superiority to the kids, a few of them were getting very upset and it just made me want to comfort them, but I couldn't because that lady scared me too.