What they don’t tell you about substitute teaching…😢🥺💔
The second image is #aigenerated but it is as close as it can be to how it looked and felt when we got the “all clear”…
I can still hear the screams. The banging on the walls of the bathroom. The crying in the hallways from the rooms…
As a #substitute going through this, I have more tools and skills to cope after something like this. But I think about those kids… their parents… the kind woman who gave me a hug and told me I was alright… She was a complete stranger but that hug felt so nice…
I didn’t have my own classroom full of kids, but my heart goes out to the full time #teachers who did and had to go back to their day like nothing happened…🥺😢
I’m in my mid-twenties and I still contacted my parents. Cried into their arms. Felt so terribly small and scared.
Always be sure to check on your #teacher friends. The student teacher’s. The paraprofessionals. The kids. Sometimes it’s okay to not be okay after something like that happens.
