# Substitute teaching permit?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substitute-teaching-permit/315765>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 5, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substitute-teaching-permit/315765 "2005-08-05T19:41:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substitute-teaching-permit/315765/1 "2005-08-05T19:41:39Z")

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I was interested in being a substitute teacher in the Fall, and I was looking at online applications. They mentioned having a ‘sub permit’, something I do not have, nor do I know how to get one. All the websites I saw that have information about it haven’t been very useful for my situation.

They state that unless you have a degree in education, you have to get a substitute permit. I am kind of confused here- I thought passing the CBEST and having a BA was all that was required. What am I missing here?

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**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substitute-teaching-permit/315765/2 "2005-08-06T00:25:50Z")

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You might want to call the district’s main admin offices. It sounds like it’s the paperwork you have to fill out for the district and a lot of government stuff like fingerprint checks. Get the fingerprinting done ASAP, they can take forever. Or be done in a week. Either way, I don’t know of any district that’ll let you anywhere near the kids without them.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substitute-teaching-permit/315765/3 "2005-08-06T00:56:29Z")

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What **Ashes** said. You have to get fingerprinted, there is a Megan’s Law background check, and such like that.