Taxpayer Nightmare: NYC Spends 65 M on Teachers Who Don’t Teach!
By
pparets
on May 4, 2008 at 05:26 am
Breitbart is reporting that the City of New York spends 65 million dollars a year paying full salary to teachers who are not in the classroom, while awaiting resolution of charges against them ranging from chronic absenteeism to possible child abuse.
According to Michael Best, chief legal counsul for NYC’s Education Department, most suspended teachers spend their day in district-sponsored “rubber rooms”, playing cards, sleeping or reading newspapers, while collecting full pay. Best calls it “terribly demoralizing.”
This is a huge tragedy for taxpayers, students and the city’s working teachers, many of them struggling in overcrowded, under-supplied classrooms.
Maybe it’s the city’s school administrators and AFT union bosses who should be assigned to a rubber room.
http://www.brietbart.com Sunday, 4 May, 2008
According to Michael Best, chief legal counsul for NYC’s Education Department, most suspended teachers spend their day in district-sponsored “rubber rooms”, playing cards, sleeping or reading newspapers, while collecting full pay. Best calls it “terribly demoralizing.”
This is a huge tragedy for taxpayers, students and the city’s working teachers, many of them struggling in overcrowded, under-supplied classrooms.
Maybe it’s the city’s school administrators and AFT union bosses who should be assigned to a rubber room.
http://www.brietbart.com Sunday, 4 May, 2008
