Didn't care for it. Too long by at least several hundred pages, and missing any of Baker's usual mind-expanding digressions into the minutiae of his environment. The book is almost literally just a log of his time as a substitute over the course of a month, detailed day by day, practically down to the minute, with his word-for-word interactions with students and other faculty, descriptions of their inane assignments, etc.

I wanted to laugh more. I wanted to learn more. I wanted to be asked to think about the American school system more and in new ways. But instead I got what amounted to nothing more than in-depth diary entries detailing the ways in which kids can be chaotic toward a substitute in the classroom.