A review by brindagurumoorthy
Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids by Nicholson Baker

2.0

I liked this at first because it details school from the perspective of a substitute teacher/teachers assistant, and it gave me a glimpse of other teachers’ classroom expectations etc. But that’s all the book is, literally 700+ entire pages that are just descriptions of day to day school activities and conversations. No reflection other than school sucks, over medicating kids sucks, everything sucks. Like if you’re gonna write this many pages at least include some research or analysis and try to understand things from teachers’ perspective too