Sub

Mrs. Powers is out this week due to a family emergency. So far my day has consisted of telling the sub about the different classes. Although Mrs. Powers had left the sub instructions for each class, such as have the students continue on the paintings they have been working on, the sub took matters into her own hands and said that the students could have a 'study hall'. From what I witnessed, this study hall consisted of people sitting and talking freely. I'm pretty sure that isn't what Mrs. Powers had in mind. I know that each of the students in the painting class have a new project that they should be working on, and some of them aren't even finished with the last project they were assigned. I think tomorrow I will suggest that the sub doesn't allow people to have study halls. When the art foundations classes arrived, the sub had a movie that Mrs. Powers had left about the Museum of Modern Art. Before she played the movie, however, she said that she didn't care if people didn't pay attention to the movie as long as they didn't talk loudly. She also said they could work on homework if they wanted while the movie was playing. I feel like this just made the students think that the sub believes that art isn't that important, which can influence their own beliefs on the subject. Anyway, while the students were busy not watching the movie, I actually did watch it and found that it was fairly interesting. And I am a high school student, so something that I find bearable should also be bearable to the other students. I think it would have been worthwhile for the students to pay attention, but unfortunately they were almost encouraged not to pay attention by the sub.