In aerospace, staring at the walls bored out of your mind preceded unemployment. But in the teaching profession, it’s a part of the job…
From the AP:
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.
OK, fess up. How many people who have gotten sick with their jobs (for whatever reason) look at this “rubber room” concept as some sort of glorious new opportunity? Imagine getting paid $70K/year to sit in a room and do nothing. Well, that’s basically what ATK did to me… but they got *mad* when the crushing boredom of it all caused me to do other things. Hell, there are a vast number of people across the land living an “Office Space” existence where they’re getting paid to do nothing…. but they have to look like they’re doing something, and this is damned stressful. Most people, myself included, would rather get paid to do something. But getting paid specifically to do nothing? That could be pretty damned awesome too!
If someone would pay me $70K just to show up and sit in a room for 8 hours a day, I think I’d bring my laptop and bang out a new issue of APR every other week.
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Your tax dollars at work.
They’re only finding this *now*?!?
This is an example of the Power of the Teacher’s Union (and most people think keeping the U.S. off the Metric System was the biggest example) to Do Something.
And there are underpaid people working their fucking asses off to make a real difference who can’t get a Gods Damned break. It’s bullshit.
Reading this article seriously angers me. Thousands of people have lost their jobs in this s**thole economy and yet these “teachers” are paid to do NOTHING. ALL of these 700 teachers need to be given the pink slip pronto. There are more QUALIFIED individuals than these 700 teachers that can DO the job and make a difference in kids lives.
These 700 “teachers” are NOTHING but a WASTE of taxpayers money. I’m surprised there’s not a lynch mob organizing in New York. These teachers give others a bad name. They give the whole education/school system concept a bad name. Nobody needs to wonder why education in general is a “joke”.
This article is just sickening beyond belief.
Ace: Better get use to the Obama way. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. (Yeah, I know, this kind of shit happened long before the Mutt came along but he’s going to take it to a whole new level.)
I dunno… if most of these teachers were kicked out of the classroom for the same sort of silly reasons as the ones cited here, it’s probably not their fault. Personally I would quit, try to find another job in another district, but I bet most of these people have reasons to not want to leave NYC.
“Well, that’s basically what ATK did to me… but they got *mad* when the crushing boredom of it all caused me to do other things.”
Hah. I have a friend who did a summer internship with ATK, and was similarly displeased with his experience.