Teachers Share Their Wildest Stories From Subbing
Teachers Off Duty
Bored Teachers
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Today on Teachers Off Duty, the crew dives into the unpredictable world of substitute teaching… and let's just say, anything can happen.
From walking into classrooms with zero context to surviving the chaos of students testing boundaries, they share their funniest, most stressful, and most unforgettable subbing experiences.
They talk about what it's really like being "the new sub," how quickly students figure it out, and the wild things kids will try to get away with when their regular teacher is gone. Plus, they unpack the reality of leaving sub plans, classroom management struggles, and the unspoken rules every substitute learns the hard way.
Whether you've subbed before, worked with subs, or been that student… this episode will have you laughing, cringing, and saying "yep, that tracks."
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| 0:00.0 | When I was a sub, we did have like a little text message like where we, or if we saw each other like walking from one, like out of a school or whatever, we'd be like, hey, don't go to that school. Sub it's like genuinely like, like it's giving Forrest Gump, like life is like a box of chocolate. Oh, you really don't know what you're going to do. Yeah. Man, it was hot. Don't kids around. around. Just the one I was like, I flew up. |
| 0:22.2 | Ooh. It's like, I, |
| 0:23.6 | I have. man it was hot them kids around just the one was like I threw up I was like I had asked them a |
| 0:25.6 | question I was like hey are your shoes on the right feet and they were like no duh I was like |
| 0:31.7 | like first off you saying no I'm asking you throw on the right feet because they're not right |
| 0:37.0 | so why you're over here talking about no duh I'm asking you if they're on the right feet because they're not, right? So while you're over here talking about no, duh, I'll tell you that those kids was in there trying to cuss me out. I said, you know what, you're right. You're right. You got it. Listen, I'm so much, especially when I was seven, I was like, I'm about to trust. But she was like, quit teaching and started seven. I was like, I'm not for the shirt. Hello, admin. Y'all come get the kids. |
| 0:56.2 | Sometimes I just let them have seven. I was like, I'm not for the stress. Hello, admin. |
| 0:55.4 | Y'all come get the kids. |
| 0:56.2 | Sometimes I just let them have it because I'm like, if I say something about, |
| 0:59.4 | I'm going to ruin this man. |
| 1:00.6 | You know. Hey, best friends, welcome to this week's episode of Teachers Off Duty. |
| 1:20.9 | If you do not know me, I'm honest teacher vibes. |
| 1:22.8 | And if you are new here, welcome. |
| 1:24.7 | I am joined by two amazing co-hosts, man. |
| 1:27.3 | We had us a good little time. Tell the people you y'all are. All right. I am joined by two amazing co-host man we had us a good little time |
| 1:28.6 | tell the people you all right I am Al Brandon Hills you can follow me at ATX Hills |
| 1:33.8 | and I'm Josh King kindergarten teacher and you can find me at Joshua Riles King |
| 1:39.6 | it's not Joshua Lest King but I want to be French. I got to go look at your name. |
| 1:44.5 | Joshua Le King. |
| 1:46.0 | Le Crescent. |
| 1:49.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:50.1 | I'll be wanting to feel fancy. |
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