Sub Requirements?

There's always been a need for teachers and substitute teachers at that, but the qualifications for a substitute teacher, what should they be? Well in the past it was required of you to have a Bachelors's degree in a subject area of some sort, and a preferred amount years of experience teaching. Although districts have now become a little more relaxed on that, they still require that a candidate have a college degree and some experience. But for some states throughout this country, are now allowing college students to get jobs as substitutes in their spare time. And the only requirement is to have a minimum of certain credit hours. No experience with kids is needed. No experience in the classroom is required either, just a certain amount of credit hours. Now I'm sure they have to file for the standard background checks, hopefully, but the fact that all that is required of them is credit hours? Some universities want a minimum of 30, others 60. And let's not forget the fact that these students are just kids themselves, and some of them might be education majors, but what they should be doing, is not running a classroom, they should be observing. Because for 30 to 60 credit hours in a standard university setting, that would put the average college student at around the end of their second to the beginning of their third year. So in some of these states, in some of these districts, the college student substitute teachers are at the least, 20-21 years old. Which would make them 2-3 years older than some of the kids they'd be "teaching" would they do the high school level.
    Now regarding the actual teaching, I'm sure there are actual requirements needed for the grade levels to teach, if not, well then those kids are screwed. Because if I were a senior in high school, a few months from graduating and had just turned eighteen and one day in pops a sub who literally looks like they should be in there with me. And if I were the other teachers I probably wouldn't even treat them with very much respect or give them much help with classroom management. 
    I mean, I'm long-term subbing 6th grade Language Arts right now, I'm 26 in the district I grew up in and I'm the youngest teacher there. The only other teacher that looks remotely close to my age is probably four years older. I sometimes have a hard time getting 12-year-olds to respect me. Even harder when they hit 7th and 8th grade. Damn near impossible, even when you're long term. 

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