Substitute Teacher Hats

Every classroom knows the look on a kid's face when the substitute walks in. The sub lives on that moment: a folder of plans they did not write, a seating chart they cannot trust, and a lesson plan that sometimes amounts to a sticky note reading "show movie to class." These hats are for the people who show up anyway. The jokes come straight from sub-day life. THE LESSON PLAN IS A MOVIE and I WILL BE LEAVING A NOTE nod to the famous end-of-day note to the regular teacher, the viral kind that mentions making ear plugs out of broken crayons. NO GRADING, NO MEETINGS is the real perk of the job, and MY STANDARDS ARE VERY LOW is a fair paraphrase of one sub's line that the bar for a good sub is low and they are a master at meeting low bars. I'M THE SUB AND I'M NOT LEARNING NAMES skips the roll call that trips up every sub who mispronounces a name. Then there is the sketch. Key and Peele's Substitute Teacher first aired in 2012, with Mr. Garvey insisting that Aaron is pronounced A-A-Ron, and that line has been a sub's in-joke ever since. Schools short on staff leave plenty of classes with nobody in front of them, so a sub's work matters. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, with two plain badges for the head terms.