When Miss Orville arrives as a substitute teacher for Roger’s class, she required that the students be obedient. She was a harsh and strict teacher, that’s why Roger called her ”Miss Awful”. However, on Miss Orville’s last day before she leaves Roger’s class, Roger realized that Miss Orville’s point of being harsh and strict was that she wanted to let them have a better life. Roger learned that we shouldn’t judge people until we’ve been in their shoes. Just like the quote: “Don’t judge a book by the cover”
Roger had the nicest teacher before, Miss Wilson. She played with the students during classes and even let the students take some rest. When she gave homework, Roger didn’t even care about it. Once she left for a week to Omaha for a trip, the students got a new substitute. She was stringent and mean. She came to the classroom with her plant in one hand, and bunch of works on the other. She was Ms. Orville, and students called her “Miss Awful” . Miss Orville confiscated Roger’s toys, ripped the papers of students who didn’t do the homework correctly, marched them in and out from the schools, and complained about the students to their parents. She insulted Roger by calling him the prodigy of misspelling. Then she asked Roger to spell flower and castle but he couldn’t. After this embarrassment of Mrs. and Mr. Clark were surprised to see how Roger became smarter and was afraid of her. Another day when parents came to pick up their children Nancy Reeves, Roger’s friend’s mother remembered that she knew Miss Orville and said that she was evicted from her apartment and was left homeless with her plants.
Since the students hated her they thought of many horrid ways of getting rid of her like beating her up. Another was the idea to rip the leaves of her plant. Miss Awful started her last day with announcement: “If I have been severe with you this past week, it was for your benefit. The world needs good citizens.” Then after when she saw the plant all bare she continued: “You see, Violence and destruction, Whoever is responsible, please feel remorse for your actions.” After the class ended there was no forming lines and some students were in regret while others were happy she was gone. She gave Roger his toys, and he understood why she was stringent to the students.