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My guess
By Kathy

When I know that I'm going to be gone, I leave very detailed lessons for the substitute as I feel if I have advance warning it's my responsibility to see that things run as smoothly as possible.

However, if I'm suddenly
ill, my plans will be a lot less complete. And I suppose if I were so deathly ill that I couldn't make it to school to make out even skimpy plans(hasn't happened yet!!),you might end up with a day like it sounds like you experienced.
Most teachers I know do not make out detailed plans spelling out just how they will teach something unless they know they are going to be absent. It takes

a l-o-n-g time to do that--and that time is better spent elsewhere unless you know you will be gone. A lot of those things you mentioned wouldn't have been needed if the classroom teacher had been there.

I agree that a "sub folder" with vital information/procedures is important. And your post did make me think that I should have a list of texts, etc. with the office in the case I absolutely can't make it in to make plans.

My guess is the teacher you subbed for planned to be there that day and that's why the plans weren't more complete.