Yes, but here it is not like when I was in school. Teachers have set days when they are available before or after school for the students. And when they are, it is usually only for a half hour or so to assist them if they need it or if they need to makeup work. They also have one period that is devoted to lesson planning during the school day. So most teachers leave the school by 3:35pm every day. That allows for the entire rest of the day to study .net.


>As a substitute teacher, you follow the regular teacher's lesson plans. You are not allowed to develop those plans. I don't know what free time I'd have, but you have to be available all day to the students and staff when substituting for a teacher for whatever reason they are absent.
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>>In North Carolina, you cannot collect unemployment benefits if you have been offerred a job and turned it down. That makes the question moot for me.
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>>I would teach and then spend the nights learning .net You may find that you like the teaching better anyway, but at a minimum you are doing something productive, earning, and still learning.
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>>However, depending on the courses you will be teaching (do lesson plans already exist?) will determine how much free time you really have to study .net when you are not teaching.