If @ghallway was trying to make the point that maybe this wouldn’t happen if we didn’t basically hire people off the street with no background in a classroom … Well, I see the point, but it’s undermined by @pwenzel’s link to another story, where it was a teacher (not a sub) running the fights.
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A major part of the problem is how we compensate and treat teachers in the first place - who wants to be underpaid and treated like shit by the general public?
But that’s not going to magically change by noting that this person was a substitute. 
It’s utterly besides the point. As you note, there was a certified teacher doing something similar. Being a bad person can’t be credentialed away…
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People can be good at hiding their shitty nature… No program is perfect.
And let’s not forget that our colleges and universities are also under attack from the right and that’s gonna shape these programs. If people running programs to educate educators are also stressed out, they’re gonna be less able to weed out poor candidates…
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Yeah, how dare they fail to conform to strangers’ cultural expectations?
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Yeah, I was kidding.
Many substitute teachers are at least as qualified (credentials and experience) as regular teachers. For example, a teacher who takes a few years off to care for children, parents, or a spouse might still pick up occasional days when they can. Unless you have evidence that this particular person was not, in fact, a teacher, you can’t assume.
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