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1/2 day assignments
By Carol

Anon,
There is nothing wrong with what you did and I do it all the time. I've been subbing for over twenty years now. So, if your worried about retaliation well it's like this.
Turning the one teacher down for
the other, may or may not go against. You see it all depends upon whether or not the teachers/administrators at the school like you. If they like you, then they leave you alone and if they don't, they will pick at everything you do, like any work environment.
You have bills to pay and if someone can't understand that, it says more about them than you. Remember you are an "at-will"

employee, which means the district offers you work when and if it wants to. It makes no promises; so no promises are broken if you get dropped or they start limiting your assignments without notice or cause. And, most all districts do this sooner or later.
As a result, you have no due process rights and limited rights to unemployment benefits. You work for a third of what the lowest paid teacher gets paid and you have no union rep. (something even the janitor has.)
Control over the assignments that you accept is about the only real control you have as a sub. Remember a lot of teachers exercise total control over what subs they will allow in their classrooms. They have many ways of doing this which is not relevant to this post. Just know that they do it and you may never know about it until you stop getting assignments for that teacher.
The point is, if teachers can control who can control who subs for them and districts can control the amount of jobs you get offered, then turn around is fair play.

Luck,
Carol