Posted on 04/17/2010 3:14:26 AM PDT by Scanian
Hallelujah!
Maybe the most shameful feature of the New York City public school system -- its infamous network of "rubber rooms" -- will soon be history.
The Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers yesterday announced that the rooms -- essentially detention centers where teachers accused of misconduct while away months and years at full pay -- will be eliminated entirely come the fall.
For more than three years, The Post doggedly campaigned against the rubber rooms -- where hundreds of teachers and administrators got paid for doing absolutely nothing, at a cost of $40 million a year in salaries alone.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Liberalism IS a mental disorder, so maybe rubber rooms are called for.
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