March 24, 2010

Teachers' Rubber Rooms

[From article]

"Rubber rooms, or "reassignment centers," were created by the city Department of Education as a dumping ground for teachers awaiting charges ranging from incompetence to sexual misconduct. The educators are required to report to their room daily and must, by law, be paid their full salary until their matter is resolved.[. . .]

Last year, the city paid its rubber-room teachers $40 million in salaries alone.[. . .]
[one teacher] was accused of staring at a female student's backside and sent to a rubber room."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bored_of_ed_in_fPRMkAqNVBQ4hWAs1XYICM

Filmmakers offer an inside look at NYC's 'rubber rooms'

Where banished teachers snooze . . . and you lo$e

New York Post

Last Updated: 5:47 PM, March 23, 2010

Posted: 3:08 AM, March 21, 2010

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