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On the first day of school, building substitute John Tapaoan was given a packet of rosters and a schedule. First hour is health. Second is advanced weights. Third hour is nutrition and wellness. Tapaoan wrote the schedule in black ink on the first page, thinking it was temporary. Fifth hour is another weights class. And finally, sixth and seventh hours are health. This is a normal one-day schedule for Tapaoan. He is used to filling in for absent teachers in all subject areas. What wasn’t normal was how he was asked to follow this same schedule the next day. And the next. “I had to write [it] down,” Tapaoan said. “Because you know, I was just thrown in there.” Almost a full month later, Tapaoan is still following the same schedule. He has to rely on other PE teachers such as Doug and Maggie Archer for curriculum — he’s used to being given notes for the day, but Tapaoan had no time to prepare for a full month teaching a class — or longer. Tapaoan’s normal sporadic schedule of fi...

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