Teachers paid for doing nothing
It is really nice to see tax payer dollars go toward paying teachers to do nothing. I’m not talking about the gym teacher either; I’m talking about “time out” for teachers.
Hundreds of New York City school teachers that have been accused of offenses are still on the clock; being paid their full salaries just to do nothing. As long as they’re not at home, they’re being paid. Many of the teachers sit around and surf the internet or play scrabble, whatever they want to do.
The union they work for’s contract makes it next to impossible to fire them, so the teachers are sent to “rubber rooms” which is a slang term for the off campus space where they can wait months or even years until disciplinary hearings.
Just like their colleagues who are actually teaching students at school, the nearly 700 teachers sitting in the rubber rooms still get summer vacation, weekends off, and holidays off throughout the school year.
The teachers collect their full salaries of $70,000 a year, costing taxpayers somewhere in the ballpark of $65 million a year.
“No one wants teachers who don’t belong in the classroom. However, we cannot neglect the teachers’ rights to due process,” said Ron Davis, a spokesman for the United Federation of Teachers. Currently the union is trying to work with the Department of Education to reach an agreement to reduce the amount of time teachers spend in the rubber rooms. The current union contract requires that the teachers continue their jobs in some way until their cases are tried.
So, while your children’s schools don’t have the funds to pay for copies of notes from the teacher, or every time you have to buy something that was once supplied by the school, like tissues or glue sticks, remember where your tax payer dollars are going.
Like most of the rest of the country, there is no teachers’ union to this extent where I live. This is probably for the best because even though I don’t have kids, if I knew that bit of my taxes was going to pay teachers to sit in a room and surf the internet or play scrabble I would be sitting in those rubber rooms on a daily basis and making them teach me or something.
This is as absurd as the union contract that required GM employees to have places for laid off or retired employees to stay for months and still receive their full salaries. I know that our public school system is broken, and this story just proves it once and for all.
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Where I live the public school teachers don’t get paid a whole lot and there aren’t any unions. This is the problem that I see with the issue.
I am all for unions to help protect workers rights, but when contracts allow such blatant waste it is time to rework them. NYC should have better overseen the union contract negotiations and signing.
In my country teachers get little money for doing anything!
I agree to what you said, teachers that doing nothing in school should not get paid…Here in our country teacher is the second parents of our children. Teaching to educate a child is there responsibility by doing this they are paid by the government.
The union is the reason we can’t get rid of bad teachers in favor of good teachers to make our schools better. They are also the reason we can’t give merit increases for good teachers. They insist that all teachers are paid on the same scale regardless of their job performance. Any wonder our schools are in the shape they are in?
You’ve got to be joking… I never knew this. It’s ridiculous!
This is absolutely crazy. There is a simple solution though. Speed up the disciplinary process. There must be a quicker way of dealing with these issues so they can either go back to work or be fired.
Ah… This really annoys me! Worse than when I saw a dozen construction workers gathering around a drum fire the other day! That’s not work my friends!
Not the first time construction workers have been seen doing nothing. I always drive through places where road works are taking place, but there’s either nobody there or they’re not doing any work. Did anybody ever think that if they worked a bit harder it wouldn’t take so long and there wouldn’t be so much disruption.
It took some road workers 7 years to finish one small bridge on the outskirts of my hometown. It came to the budget most of the time. For the first three months out of the year they would get a lot of work done, then you wouldn’t seen them again until around August.
Of coarse I have seen in other cities where road crews have built things in a really sort period of time. However, it is funny that no matter what state/city where I go I see 10 guys waiting around while 1 guy works on something.
This is crazy, with the economy in melt down, I cant believe there are people still getting a very ride. But on the otherside if you break the clause of the contract then where does it ends. Hopefully the budget would have been already set so that these teachers are paid.
A mate of mines knows a friend who is one of these teachers. Sometimes things are not as black and white as it seems. Teachers are often accused of things and whilst waiting for the outcome of the investigation teachers are kept on full pay. Police officers also are treated the same way where many of them are simply suspended on full pay pending an investigation.