700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing

ap ^ | Jun 22 | KAREN MATTHEWS

[Mount Athos]

What teachers unions do for america

[hometoroost]

Hey, let’s put these guys in charge of health care too! Imagine the savings we could achieve with a single-payer system!

[HighWheeler]

The teachers assigned to the classrooms do almost as little, until Cucumber Day

[Lou Budvis]

What differentiates them from most other school employees?

[battletank]

This sounds exactly what happens with the auto workers who would sit around in rooms playing cards. Typical union thugs...the whole lot of them.

[Balding_Eagle]

Playing Scrabble. Most NY teachers can’t spelling good enough.

[taillightchaser]

Well, at least they’re not in class telling the kids how great gay sex is.

[A message]

The department blames union rules.

How about they blame the dumbass bureaucrats that accepted these dumbass union contracts.

Or the dumbass voters that voted in the dumbass bureaucrats that accepted these dumbass union contracts.

[alloysteel]

The news is not that the teachers in question continue to draw full paychecks while under suspension or while acting as “ghost employees”, the news is that only 700 are being reported.

The real number is almost certainly much higher. There is no oversight on these things, as this is largely a Democrat suzerainty, and this is purely internal to the City of New York.

[Wooly]

In most states the often quoted Classroom per pupil spending is bogus. Look at California, as a part of the total budget California is 7th in spending per pupil, but when the money filters down to the actual local classroom it is 47th per pupil. Unions and their cronies steal most of the money to return to the crooked politicians.

[digger48]

How about they blame the dumbass bureaucrats that accepted these dumbass union contracts.

Or the dumbass voters that voted in the dumbass bureaucrats that accepted these dumbass union contracts.

"and a double dumb-ass on you"

: )

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Well, following the dictate of “First, do no harm.”, they are arguably some on New York City’s most productive municipal “workers”. I say this as someone who has cashed hundreds of paychecks issued by my native burg, Noo Yawk.

[A message]

Exactly.

I’d like to neck pinch some politicians and CEO’s that have caved to some of these Unions over the years.

Stupidity has consequences.

[Mount Athos]

Hey, let’s put these guys in charge of health care too! Imagine the savings we could achieve with a single-payer system!

that's a really good comment

[noblejones]

More like 78,000 paid to do nothing, IMHO.

[Mount Athos]

That's 700 jobs we can mark in the category of "saved or created"!!

[bray]

Likely the best education $$ we spend.

Pray for America

[SaveTheChief]

There is no politician or political party that can save us from this kind of idiocy. Something this stupid is going to require divine intervention.

[bigbob]

Based on the results they get, a lot more the 700 are being paid to not teach.

[InvisibleChurch]

Only 700?