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clean up...
By Nancy

While I always spend time at the end of the day organizing papers that I collected throughout the day, and writing a detailed note for the regular teacher, I feel that room clean up is up to my students (they generally are
the ones who cluttered it in the first place!). There is absolutely no reason why, during the last 10 minutes of the school day, students cannot pick up papers on the floor, straighten their desks, and neaten the room. A lot of teachers that I sub. for leave this in their plans..."at 3:15, student tidy up the room."
My own children know that it is their responsibility at home to

clean up their messes, because mom isn't going to do it for them. If something gets lost or thrown away, it is because they didn't pick up after themselves. I automatically transfer this to my substitute teaching.

To all of my students who may have had me as a substitute teacher...I am not sorry that your math homework or your new pencil got thrown away by the janitor because you couldn't take the 15 seconds it would take to tidy around your desk.