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700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing (while education diminishing!)
AP-Yahoo! ^ | 22 June 2009 | KAREN MATTHEWS

Posted on 06/23/2009 8:52:44 AM PDT by greatdefender

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.

"You just basically sit there for eight hours," said Orlando Ramos, who spent seven months in a rubber room, officially known as a temporary reassignment center, in 2004-05. "I saw several near-fights. `This is my seat.' `I've been sitting here for six months.' That sort of thing."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: arth; education; nea; nyc; publikskewlz; teachers
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1 posted on 06/23/2009 8:52:45 AM PDT by greatdefender
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To: greatdefender

And they wonder why New York is in such a financial crisis.....


2 posted on 06/23/2009 8:55:18 AM PDT by wk4bush2004 (PALIN-BACHMANN, 2012......."GIVE ESTROGEN A CHANCE!!!!")
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To: greatdefender

And people doubt that liberalism works. Silly, aren’t they?


3 posted on 06/23/2009 8:56:25 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: greatdefender
Gotta love unions.........not.

Seriously, I think I had rather buy something foreign made than buy the equivalent USA union made product. My justification is that bho would not be president today, had not the unions supported him.

I am beginning to think unions are anti-American.
This is a vent......

4 posted on 06/23/2009 8:59:10 AM PDT by Tahoe3002
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To: greatdefender

thats a bogus headline.

the NYC Teachers pretty much ALL do nothing.


5 posted on 06/23/2009 8:59:14 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: wk4bush2004

The overworked, underpaid public school teachers!


6 posted on 06/23/2009 8:59:32 AM PDT by Holicheese (He stopped the War on Terror and started a War on Patriotism!)
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To: greatdefender
The unions are destroying this country:

Alabama Teacher Who Had Sex With Student Paid While In Prison

7 posted on 06/23/2009 9:00:11 AM PDT by blam
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To: greatdefender

Maybe if we paid more of them to do nothing...our kids would
be smarter.


8 posted on 06/23/2009 9:04:26 AM PDT by skully (Our hottest chick is Sarah; theirs is Barney Frank)
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To: greatdefender

Sounds like there are also some administrators who need to go to their own rubber room (or just plain old fired in short order)!


9 posted on 06/23/2009 9:07:44 AM PDT by Kozel89
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To: greatdefender

This brought to you by our wonderful government. The same government about to take over health care.

I am already pissed off as it is. I pay for our three children to go to parochial school and I still have to pay the stupid school tax.

This is NUTS!


10 posted on 06/23/2009 9:10:54 AM PDT by quesera (We are so screwed!!)
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To: Tahoe3002

i am with you...have never supported them....i think when the ideas of unions first started they were in fact for the good of the people working....i believe they lost their vision years ago though like any good idea seems to do....


11 posted on 06/23/2009 9:23:54 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: Gabz; SoftballMominVA; abclily; aberaussie; albertp; AliVeritas; Amelia; A_perfect_lady; ...

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12 posted on 06/23/2009 9:43:47 AM PDT by shag377 (Illegitimis nil carborundum sunt!)
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To: tatsinfla
Unions nearly always protect the lazy,the incompetent,and the criminal members while punishing any member who tries to do a better job than the quota minimum.I've seen it several times up close and personal in my early work days.

There's something wrong with a group whose standard greeting is "don't work too hard".

13 posted on 06/23/2009 9:57:04 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: greatdefender
"It's sort of peaceful knowing that you're going to work to do nothing," he said.

"It's sort of peaceful knowing that you're going to work to do nothing," he said.

Fixed it. You are not "going to work" if you plan "to do nothing."

Sounds like the rooms at the Auto Companies where "workers" go to spend all day not working.

14 posted on 06/23/2009 10:23:46 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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To: skully
Maybe if we paid more of them to do nothing...our kids would be smarter.

You're right about that.

We needn't fret about our "failing education system". It's working exactly as intended. The problem is that we're mostly ignorant of its goal. (http://www.spinninglobe.net/againstschool.htm)

How parents can hate their children enough to consign them to public schooling is beyond me.
15 posted on 06/23/2009 10:32:10 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: wk4bush2004

Sounds sort of like the Jobs Bank program at Government Motors. I once mentioned to my boss that I’d like to get a job like that. He replied “No you wouldn’t. You’d go crazy doing nothing quicker than anybody I know.”


16 posted on 06/23/2009 11:18:58 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: greatdefender

Fiddling while Rome burns...


17 posted on 06/23/2009 11:22:08 AM PDT by eleni121 (The New Byzantium - resurrect it!)
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To: Vigilanteman

You’d go crazy doing nothing quicker than anybody I know


Maybe we could add hardship pay on top of the job bank program pay.


18 posted on 06/23/2009 11:24:05 AM PDT by eleni121 (The New Byzantium - resurrect it!)
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To: 2Jedismom; AAABEST; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; AliVeritas; AlmaKing; AngieGal; Antoninus; ...

ping


19 posted on 06/23/2009 11:34:03 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: greatdefender

And even with this story, nothing’s going to happen to any of these people.

New York is a liberal Democrat state - so the people of New York will smile and pay their taxes...


20 posted on 06/23/2009 11:41:59 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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