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Written by Emma Embar and Devaughn Hester for The Eagle

Everyone waits for the day when the teacher they absolutely hate is sick, has a doctors appointment, is extra late, or just doesn’t show up, and you’re assigned a substitute teacher, but who assigns them? Is anything really required to be a substitute teacher?

It’s great having a period or two off, but sometimes the subs are a bit iffy. They can be old, harsh, creepy, overly happy or nervous, or better yet, classes have been left with no sub at all!

It’s unbelievable when your teacher leaves assigned work and the sub thinks they have to go out of the way to give us more work when we aren’t going to complete what they gave us in the first place…

And every year the same strange Spanish substitute always seems to show up who ignores all of the work Mrs. Shaffer leaves us to put one warm up question on the board: What Do You Call Someone Who Loves Spanish Culture? The answer is Spanophile.

Tell me again who assigns subs and what are the requirements?

By DeVaughn Hester

Every day I leave my home in the Overbrook neighborhood ofPittsburgh, which is the very border of the city. Two blocks from my house is the borough ofBrentwood. And school is in the Northeastern portion of town. So basically my journey to school and home is as long as can be. I spend an hour of my 90-minute trek from home to school and home to school on the bus.

And occasionally I end up sitting next to a smoker.

I want to laugh at them and make sure they know its them I’m laughing at. It’s funny to me that someone can walk into an office or wherever they work and smell like nothing but smoke.

It’s ridiculous if you ask me.

Maybe I don’t understand the motives behind smoking, but I don’t ever understand why someone would want to do that. Well I hope these people get how deadly smoking can be. A recent study concluded that for every year one smokes, an additional three years of life span is lost. One’s family and friends are hurt too. Second hand smoke is proven to be just as deadly as smoking itself.

So before you decide you want to smoke, consider your family and friends. Why would you want to hurt them? Why would you want to hurt yourself?