NYC Rubber Rooms
Many people seem incredulous when I tell them about the “rubber rooms” that the NYC public school system has set up for its incompetent, dangerous, and sexually predatory teachers that cannot be fired because of the powerful teachers’ union and the onerous firing process. It’s so hard to fire a teacher there that it’s easier to just pay them their salary to sit and do nothing, away from students. Well I shouldn’t say nothing… Labor Pains reports that one of the teachers has been secretly filming a documentary of what goes on:
Garrett’s documentary is called “The Rubber Room”, and its website advertises that “sleeping in a sleeping bag,” “practicing karate on file cabinets,” and “running a small business” all occur within the rubber room’s confines. I’m sure the movie will be both hilarious and depressing.
That sounds nothing like what went on at my government job, although I don’t remember needing a special room. Guess our union wasn’t up to snuff.