The Fake Therapist in Class

The Substitute Who Pretended to Be a “Licensed Therapist”… Until the School Found Out

So this happened my senior year, and it is still the craziest thing I've ever seen happen

at school. We had this long-term substitute teacher—we’ll call her Ms. K. Our regular English

teacher went on maternity leave, so Ms. K came in looking super professional: blazer,

glasses, clipboard, the whole “I run this place” energy. At first,

she seemed normal… too normal. Like she was trying hard to seem competent. Day two,

she starts each class with “mandatory emotional check-ins.” And I don’t mean, “How’s everyone

doing?” I mean she made everyone go around the room and reveal deep personal stuff—home