Setback

Today I am writing from home because as fate would have it, I am sick. Yesterday I didn't go to SCORE because I had an AP exam, so I prepared for today instead. But alas, I woke up sick and decided it would be better to work from home than surround myself with art students all day and potentially get them sick as well. Luckily, there is much to be done that I can still do from home. I emailed Mrs. Powers about the measures I can take in order to be more involved with her classes while she was away, and she gave me the green light to give permission slips to the art foundations students so that they can watch the movie Pollock, which is exponentially better than the other movies they were watching. I realized that when a teacher who teaches a specialized subject, such as art or music, is absent, the subs have absolutely no idea as to how to occupy the students. When students have art related questions, the subs simply can't answer (unless of course they studied art in high school or college, which is surprisingly rare among the array of substitute teachers our school has). With other subjects, such as math or english, the substitute almost always has a generalized knowledge on the subject, and can simply assign some busy work from the text book. Art is different. There are no text books in art, which makes things a little more complicated for the sub. Tomorrow I am determined to be in school and help the sub get something productive going with the students.