If you don’t think teachers get enough respect, you’d be shocked to hear the kind of treatment that substitute teachers get. I remember all of the memorable substitute teachers from my school days, most of them because of how badly the students would treat them. We had a sub in 5th and 6th grade named Mrs. Smallings, and because this is how the universe works, she was an incredibly Rubenesque lady. She was surly and irascible constantly, probably because a bunch of horrible children were making fun of her weight 40 hours a week. The other memorable sub was nicknamed «Mrs. Please and Thank You» because, you guessed it, she dared to ask high school students to use basic manners in school. There was the occasional memorable sub who wasn’t treated terribly (I recall an old man who gave us cute little toys until middle school), but those were few and far between.