700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing

[woodyear99]

I wonder if Trinidad teachers are afforded such protection...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090622/ap_on_re_us/us_rubber_rooms


NEW YORK – Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.

Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its "rubber rooms" — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings.

The 700 or so teachers can practice yoga, work on their novels, paint portraits of their colleagues — pretty much anything but school work. They have summer vacation just like their classroom colleagues and enjoy weekends and holidays through the school year.

[Redlum08]

I can attest to this, its incredible how much money is wasted on teachers who are just MORONS and do not deserve to be trusted to educate the future of society...Problem is, Unions in the US are powerful organizations that have alot of political pull come election time, and they tend to abuse that power at the expense of others...in this case, the children who are supposed to be learning...

[woodyear99]

Hehe I was just waiting for you to respond to this lol

[Crixx_Creww]

they only thing they probably cant do is get another job....
that would be sweet

[Eroo]

This is terrible, taxpayers money just going down the drain and their children still not getting a proper education.


This is a job for Obama.

[Redlum08]

This is terrible, taxpayers money just going down the drain and their children still not getting a proper education.

This is a job for Obama.

It gets worse...I have first hand knowledge, since my Wife was a teacher (now a writer because she couldn't deal with the stupidity in the system) that State Exams are graded by teachers who are paid for their extra time, and are told to "PROP" up the grades AKA give them some extra marks nah! to make the test scores look good....THe Mayor in NYC Mike Bloomberg is right now trying to get the State Senate to approve MAYORAL control for another 8 years + so that they can continue to fudge numbers and promote kids who will end up in Remedial English and Math in Community College....How NICE is that!

[W1nTry]

I say let them go for it, when the entire US is filled with nothing but uneducation misfits that can't do a single skilled job and the country completely goes down the tube we'll be able to say "I guess it's not a privilege to go the to US anymore"