It was Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week two weeks ago

May 2nd thru the 6th was National Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week, link. If you google "national substitute teacher appreciation week" and +"Albuquerque Public Schools" you won't get any hits. Of course if you searched for evidence that APS appreciates regular teachers either, the results would be the same.

If asked, APS' million dollar a year Communications Department would tell you that the leadership of the APS really do in fact, appreciate teachers, and substitute teachers, and everyone else for that matter.

They just won't give any of them a seat at the table.

The very most fundamental sign of respect for teachers, substitute teachers and other interest holders would be to be given a seat at the table where decisions are made; to have the leadership of the APS pay real attention to what they say.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures, according to
George Bernard Shaw, is not to hate them, but to be indifferent
to them, that's the essence of inhumanity, he wrote.

I digress; back to substitute teaching; talk about a tough row
to hoe. About the only thing I would like to do less perhaps,
would to be a middle school bus driver. One must wonder they
did in their previous life, to be a middle school bus driver in this.

I have on a number of occasions, suggested that school board
members should substitute teach on a regular basis. It would
be good for their perspectives. The same can said for
administrators who are long out of the classroom.

First hand experience in the trenches; there is no equivalent
qualification to speak on what should and should not be going
on in public schools. It's an eye opener.

Likely, you would qualify to be a substitute teacher if you wanted.
Of course, you won't get paid very much, link.