Agree. Since it’s nearly impossible to fire a teacher, this guy is probably just angling for a permanent paid leave.
New York City actually has a ‘school’ where all the bad teachers go and just hang out all day. !!
They can’t be fired because of union rules. So if they’ve done some violation they’re sent to an actual school where they sit and read newspapers all day.
Here’s a story on it:
The stated rationale for the reassignment centers is unassailable: Get these people away from children, even if tenure rules require that they continue to be paid. Most urban school systems faced with tenure constraints follow the same logic. Los Angeles and San Francisco pay suspended teachers to answer phones, work in warehouses, or just stay home; in Chicago they do clerical work. But the policies implemented by other cities are on a far smaller scale—both because they have fewer teachers and because they have not been as aggressive as Klein and Bloomberg in trying to root out the worst teachers.
It seems obvious that by making the Rubber Rooms as boring and as unpleasant as possible Klein was trying to get bad teachers to quit rather than milk the long hearing process—and some do, although the city does not keep records of that.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/31/the-rubber-room
https://nypost.com/2020/08/15/nyc-pledged-to-ban-teacher-rubber-rooms-they-went-underground-instead/