and NY takes another one in the........
Posted on 02/12/2012 2:35:11 PM PST by appeal2
Alan Rosenfeld, a New York City typing teacher was suspended in 2001 for ogling female students and making inappropriate comments to them. The Board of Education thought that he presented enough of a threat, that he was barred from the classroom. However, they botched his disciplinary hearing and due to strict union rules, were unable to terminate the alleged deviant. As a result, Rosenfeld spent 10 years in the rubber room, a place where teachers who are awaiting hearings or cannot be discharged are kept, out of the public view and fully paid.
During his suspension, he earned over $100,000 per year and received tax payer funded health benefits worth another $20,000 per annum. Finally, he realized it was time to retire. He now gets a tax-free pension of $85,000 per year and gets to keep his medical benefits for the remainder of his miserable life. And if Billy Joel is correct, that only the good die young, we'll be paying this miscreant for decades to come...
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and NY takes another one in the........
As usual, the union there to protect the worthless POS miscreants at the expense of the good.
Innocent until proven guilty — unless you’re accused by high school students (who, of course, never lie, exaggerate, or misunderstand what’s said to them).
Nothing (nothing!) in the article proves that the ex-teacher was actually guilty of anything. The crime here is how long it takes to process a case.
How about a speedy trial — clear the innocent, and stomp on the guilty?
Yakov was right...”It’s a great country.”
I read about one teacher who was, while in the rubber room getting his paycheques, also running his own real estate company from there.
That's the point. He did nothing illegal.
The problem is that because of union rules they couldn't even fire him. Inappropriate behavior shouldn't have to rise to the level of a crime before you can fire somebody. Because of the unions they were forced to keep this pig around doing nothing and will probably end up paying him several million dollars in retirement.
There is one good thing about all this. It has toughened me up and I am a pretty empathetic guy. Getting less and less that way by the day.
A typing teacher makes over $100,000 a year?
Yes! You are right when you called it “government schools!”
I began public school in the first grade (September 1940).
We never thought of it as “government school” all of my years (1940 thru 1953) it just was our school, or my school.
It seems the more things become “government” the more they are boggled up!
A typing teacher makes over $100,000 a year?
It’s union NYC! I would suspect the union school clerk typists make $50,000 and up.
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