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My mother taught second grade for thirty years.
There is always discipline problems in schools. She taught inner city, and some of these kids were just crazy. Receiving little or no support from home, learning isn't a priority. And when you don't care to learn, school becomes a joke.
Her last year she had one kid that would not sit in his desk. He would "scootch" along the floor the entire day, while she was teaching. She was not allowed to touch the child (this became taboo decades ago), nor could she send him to the nurse or office every day. So she was told to let him do his thing, and to not let it be a distraction.
There were good subs and bad ones. If she needed to miss, she would call in the morning to see who she got. She would also leave detailed instructions on how the day was to be carried out, and hope half of it got done.
Subs are necessary evils, but because (as pointed out above) they do not get paid well and it is not steady work, most are probably good people that care about education. However, they are not equipped for the classroom.
I'd like to think the guy who through the desk was just extremely frustrated because he could not communicate with the people he was trying to educate. Partly his fault for not being able to communicate effectively, partly the kids falut for not listening.
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