…Answer: It’s the early morning cancellation
call as my wife will attest.
It’s been a while since I’ve had to rely on the last
minute, 05:30am phone calls for
substitute teaching assignments to add to a paycheck.
After several years experience, I have managed
to assemble a modest network of teachers and school secretaries that I rely upon
for pre-assigning my teaching assignments in non-layoff years.
Since before the beginning of this New Year, I had
already pre-assigned classes scheduled for about half the school days of
January and even a few more lined up for February through April.
I was startled, then to be awakened at 05:30am only to be informed that I wouldn’t be working
today. After all, this assignment was arranged back in mid-December and only canceled
sometime after midnight. I know because it was
still in the assignment queue when I checked the computer just before I went to
bed at 11:30pm
So, now it’s 05:30 in the morning and my
paranoia won’t let me get back to sleep wondering what I must have done wrong
yesterday.
You see, today’s class was the second half of a two day assignment. I had
met with the teacher in class yesterday morning before she left. We went over
the lesson plans and she verified that I was scheduled for next day also. No pre-warning
that she might need to cancel, which would have been ok.
I guess you never know why some
things happen the way they do.
2 comments:
That's never happened to me before. Depending on the school district, sometimes I'll show up, then the secretary will move me to another classroom.
I've had those prearranged dates cancelled like that. (not at 5:30am) The job got cancelled because the meeting the teacher was going to was cancelled. One meeting got cancelled because the speaker couldn't make it.
I'm sure it was some problem with the teacher's scheduled event and not you. Who wouln't want YOU!?♥
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