For the past 18 years, I have volunteered to speak at schools in and around Houston. Very rarely do I speak at the same school and I average around five schools a school year.

I was not and am not a teacher, but I have found that it is what you make of it. The problems that you are having, I do not have and feel that you are ill equipped as to how to solve them. Yes, the inner city schools and predominately ethnic schools are a challenge, but I have never found it to be from lack of caring from the school administration.

Remember, these kids are undergoing hormonal changes and their own feelings are a daily rollercoaster ride.

It is your responsibility to help these kids learn that they have a responsibility to themselves, their families and their community. That actions do have consequences and if they work hard in school, they have just given themselves a power that no one can take from them. Knowledge. Treat them as if they were your own children, with love and compassion. You might find them willing and eager to cooperate.

I wish you well and hope that you are able to look at your situation from the students point of view. Remember when you were a kid? Substitutes really were a waste of time, I’m sure that you are not.

Although I have never been a substitute, I was an Elementry school teacher. I have to say that you are a rarity in the sub world, at least that I have seen. It was not very often that I had a substitute who would leave feedback on their day with my class, even though I would request it. It was even less often that I had a sub who would actually cover the assignments left for them, even though I took the time to have step by step instructions for them.

When I did have feedback and found out about misbehaving students or disrespectful behavior, my students found out really quickly that there were severe consequences when I returned.

I was lucky to be at a wonderful school where parents were involved and the administration was very supportive. I can see how the opposite environment woud be discouraging and leave a bitter attitude for teachers and subs alike. I have to wonder, though, do teachers and subs start out that way, or does it happen after so long of putting up with a bad situation? I think it’s a little of both. We certainly need more administration who do not just accept things, but care enough to change them.

JJR is either uninformed, muslim or a person who has not seen how England has areas that support “shiria”. Our legal system is based on English Common Law. What will prevent the U.S. from accepting Sharia?

You call the article “slander”? Ha ha ha ha ha ha

If you are a Fort Bend Democrat, you should learn more about the aspirations of “jihad” before you launch a reactionary tyrade against people who, obviously, know more about the subject.

As for the Fort Bend DA’s office, they might prosecute and they may not depending upon what is in it for them. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not “….force a separation of church and State”.

With all due respect to your misguided opinions, I suspect that you are an employee of the County.

Why no follow up on any of their ridiculous claims? Why did the reporter not seek responses from Fort Bend Democrats (yes, we do exist) for such blatant slander?

If an “honor killing” took place in Sugar Land, it would be prosecuted as 1st degree murder by the Ft. Bend County DA’s office, full stop.

The only people who worry & fret about “Sharia Law” in our country are those who willfully refuse to understand that the US Constitution’s 1st Amendment’s establishment clause, which forces a strict separation of church & state, also protects against any encroachment of religious laws into civil or criminal proceedings; period. Shame on the Fort Bend Star for such sloppy and lopsided reporting on this story.