This piece from the Village Voice is both entertaining and disturbing…like Donald Trump’s hair.
Here is a snippet:
“…there’s only one way New York knows how to deal with teachers accused of bad behavior: send them off to a Kafkaesque holding pen, where taxpayers continue to pay their salaries for months as they wait for the glacial pace of what passes for justice, meted out by a sluggish school district and intransigent union.”
Here is a bit more information, for your pleasure:
“In 2000, there were 385 teachers assigned to rubber rooms. Last month, that number had climbed to 662. [NYC public school teacher Georgia] Argyris, while she sat and stared at a wall, was paid $62,646 a year. The DOE pays about $33 million a year just in salaries to the teachers in rubber rooms?an amount that doesn’t include the salaries of investigators working on the cases of rubber room teachers, the upkeep of the reassignment centers, or the substitute teachers who replace employees…”
It is like “time-out” for adults.
Hat tip: K-Swan