And they wonder why New York is in such a financial crisis.....
And people doubt that liberalism works. Silly, aren’t they?
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......
thats a bogus headline.
the NYC Teachers pretty much ALL do nothing.
Alabama Teacher Who Had Sex With Student Paid While In Prison
Maybe if we paid more of them to do nothing...our kids would
be smarter.
Sounds like there are also some administrators who need to go to their own rubber room (or just plain old fired in short order)!
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!
"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.
Fiddling while Rome burns...
ping
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...
This has been the case for years now. Nothing new here except the numbers have probably gotten larger.
What is up is down, move on now.
I have a friend who was in one of these rubber rooms. He had a disagreement with an assistant principal on how he did things in the class room. While I cannot say if his his approach to teaching is correct, having not sat through one of his classes, I do know the man. He loved teaching very much and is a person of good character.
The problem is that what he was accused of, (incompetence) happened 3 years ago. This is a man with a Masters Degree in education. From what I could tell, the entire process is a “Kangaroo Court” of sorts. Once accused, it takes years before a hearing comes up and when it does, the supposed infraction happened so long ago, that the person accused can no longer mount a credible defense. No person sent there has ever been cleared of charges, ever! They are either dismissed, told to pay a fine or kept waiting so long for a hearing that their teaching licenses expire.
My opinion is that some innocent people are used as sacrificial lambs on the alter of tenure. The local teachers union won’t even provide for a practical defense for these people.
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.So IOW, nothing much changed in their careers.
John Stossel covered this during a report on the nations schools. I worked for over 10 years for the personnel director at a school district. NEVER was a teacher fired while I worked there.
"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.
Do they accept Harvard graduates into this program?
We may have an ideal candidate for the rubber room...
That sounds typical for a government job...we should let the government run everything. Hey how about health-care, banking and the auto industry?
With More Money ($22K/student), (New York) City Schools Added Jobs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283256/posts
It’s for the Chiiiillldrun (and the union)