New York City paying 700 teachers to not teach

Once again Organized Labor has turned logic on its head.  Rather than sitting in rubber rooms, these “teachers” should be doing something constructive. 

From Hot Air:

When an employee performs poorly in the workplace, normally employers let them go and find better replacements, or sometimes just reduce headcount and save costs to keep prices low.  When a union gets involved, and especially when the employer is the government, the dynamic changes — dramatically.  New York City’s public school system provides perhaps the most extreme example … or at least we hope so:

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.

The 700 or so teachers can practice yoga, work on their novels, paint portraits of their colleagues — pretty much anything but school work. They have summer vacation just like their classroom colleagues and enjoy weekends and holidays through the school year.

 

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