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Teachers Paid to do Nothing

Greedy Man By Selwyn Duke

In this age of budget woes and bailouts, it may surprise some to hear
that governments are paying workers to do nothing. Yet that is exactly
what is happening in New York City, where hundreds of school teachers
accused of misconduct — sometimes the sexual variety — are receiving upwards of $70,000 annually to wile away time in “temporary reassignment
centers,” with taxpayers footing the bill to the tune of $65 million a
year. Karen Matthews of the Associated Press reports:

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.

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6 responses to “Teachers Paid to do Nothing”

  1. Ray Hicks Avatar
    Ray Hicks

    Mr. Duke,
    This really is a disgrace! Teachers paid not to teach. Outrageous! These degenerates should all be rounded up, put into cattle cars with the startling number of priests who molest little boys and be taken en masse to Michael Jackson’s funeral; where they can discuss the wages of their respective sins and compare them to Jacko’s, which I think was pretty high, at least alongside that of the teachers.
    Just trying to help…Ray

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  2. Mike H Avatar
    Mike H

    Misinformation
    What you fail to include in your article is the fact that some of the teachers are guilty of the accusations against them and some are not. However, the investigations take a ridiculous amount of time. If the Department of Education of NYC would invesigate in a timely fashion the teachers would be fired or returned to work. The failure is the DOE’s not the contract. If you are found to have committed the offenses you can be fired. Millions of tax dollars are wasted because of the DOE. They do this purposely to get the media to report it so there will be pressure to change the contract and end tenure. By the way, tenure is not total job protection. All it does is ensure due process, not a job.

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  3. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Perhaps if they are found guilty they should be forced to repay the salary they took while on paid leave. Seems fittin’

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  4. Ray Hicks Avatar
    Ray Hicks

    Selwyn,
    I didn’t notice before, but…I mean is it just me…But, does that guy wearing the big eyeglasses and grabbing all the money in that picture you put with your article…Well, does he look Jewish to you…Was that the idea?
    Wondering…Ray

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  5. Mike H Avatar
    Mike H

    Agreed

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  6. Dan Avatar
    Dan

    Putting aside the absurdity that they are getting paid to sit in “rubber rooms”. I never understood why the teachers in these rubber rooms are allowed to do ANYTHING of some sort of entertainment. They should get a chair to sit and do NOTHING for 6 hours a day. No reading, no writing, no sleeping. NOTHING. That’ll makem quit, that way we dont gata pay them anymore.

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