Teacher?

[Riestar79]

I need to know if I am judging my friend unfairly. He is 50, works at auto zone, doesn’t see his son or his grandchild, never speaks about caring for children, has never really been around children, but is trying to get a job as a substitute teacher. He only wants to teach 7-9 year olds.? Has no passion for knowledge, doesn’t read, just thinks it will be an easy job. Am I reading into this, or is he giving creep vibes?

[Mamyalynne]

He doesn't read?

Do you mean he cannot read?

How did he qualify as a teacher?

[Baldric]

Definite creep vibes there.

[sanmac]

I think that substitute-teachers are teachers who have retired and sit-in for teachers who are having a sick-day or something like that I don't think that you can take a course to be a substitute-teacher.

[Mamyalynne]

'Creep vibes' was the only part I fully understood.

[bookbinder]

I don't rate his chances of getting a teaching job very highly.
1. He doesn't appear to have had any teaching experience.
2. A younger, better-qualified person is more likely to get such a job.
3. 'He just thinks it will be an easy job.' The short answer to that one is, it isn't.

[rowanwitch]

I'd be concerned by the target age range but also pretty sure a problem would be picked up before he passes selection

[Tilly2]

Perhaps he's thinking of trying for a classroom assistant job? No way will he just walk into a teaching job.

[Jackdaw33]

The language used in the post suggests that it is not from the UK.

[Buenchico]

The reference to AutoZone, which is an American car parts retailer, suggests that this post comes from the USA. That might help us (on this UK-based website) to understand the term 'substitute teacher'. In the UK we'd probably take that to be equivalent of a supply teacher (who covers in the absence of a regular member of staff).
Supply teachers need to be fully-qualified to university degree level in the same way that other teachers are.

However I suspect that 'substitute teacher' in this post might be the equivalent of our 'teaching assistant'. (In the UK teaching assistants work alongside, rather than in place of, qualified teachers. Although they don't need to be educated to degree level, they still have to possess relevant academic qualifications).

Lots of men enjoy working alongside young children (e.g. within the Scout movement). The vast majority of them don't pose any risk to the children they work with (and, indeed, do a great deal of good), so it would be wrong to jump to any negative conclusions about someone who says that they'd like to work with children. [That's in response to the 'creep vibes' bit of your post]. However anyone who thinks that working as a teacher (or teaching assistant) is an easy job clearly doesn't understand what the job actually entails. Apart from anything else, there's a load of detailed record-keeping to be dealt with, for a start.

[ummmm]

Jeez - it can be hard enough looking after your own kids.

[ToraToraTora]

he wont get the job, end of.

[bednobs]

My daughter aged 8 has only just come across the first man she's encountered in her nursery and school career. She has had 7.5 years of nursery and school and has only just seen her first man in the job. Which I find really sad.

[ummmm]

That is sad, Bednobs. My school years were dominated by male teachers and my kids had very similar.

I don't think I found any teacher proper creepy except 1 but that was because he had really hairy hands and fingers.