http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/lausd-teacher-barred-since-2002-matthew-kim-finally-fired.html
Posted on 04/06/2011 10:49:55 AM PDT by NoLibZone
About 160 instructors and others get salaries for doing nothing while their job fitness is reviewed. They collect roughly $10 million a year, even as layoffs are considered because of a budget gap.
For seven years, the Los Angeles Unified School District has paid Matthew Kim a teaching salary of up to $68,000 per year, plus benefits.
His job is to do nothing.
Every school day, Kim's shift begins at 7:50 a.m., with 30 minutes for lunch, and ends when the bell at his old campus rings at 3:20 p.m. He is to take off all breaks, school vacations and holidays, per a district agreement with the teacher's union. At no time is he to be given any work by the district or show up at school.
He has never missed a paycheck.
In the jargon of the school district, Kim is being "housed" while his fitness to teach is under review. A special education teacher, he was removed from Grant High School in Van Nuys and assigned to a district office in 2002 after the school board voted to fire him for allegedly harassing teenage students and colleagues. In the meantime, the district has spent more than $2 million on him in salary and legal costs.
Last week, Kim was ordered to continue this daily routine at home. District officials said the offices for "housed" employees were becoming too crowded.
About 160 teachers and other staff sit idly in buildings scattered around the sprawling district, waiting for allegations of misconduct to be resolved.
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the poor teachers...
I wonder how many college and university credits he has accumulated in that time?
how many teachers try their best to be accused of “misconduct’ so they can get on this gravy train?
If parents have no augmented their offsprings education in the past two generations, those kids have only been politically manipulated!
If one does not know where he has been, he knows not where to go. History has been polluted or neglected. Even the parents should read “The Light and the Glory:”, by Peter Marshall and David Manuel to learn the real story of American history from l492. Then, let us go back to the One Who gave us the greatest form of government ever devised by God and man. Without God there can be no America, and the Progressive educators know it!
If parents have no augmented their offsprings education in the past two generations, those kids have only been politically manipulated!
If one does not know where he has been, he knows not where to go. History has been polluted or neglected. Even the parents should read “The Light and the Glory:”, by Peter Marshall and David Manuel to learn the real story of American history from l492. Then, let us go back to the One Who gave us the greatest form of government ever devised by God and man. Without God there can be no America, and the Progressive educators know it!
In his 2005 "year of reform," Arnold attempted to make it easer to FIRE teachers for cause. We know how that worked out: every initiative failed at the ballot box. The public unions flooded the election cycle with $100 million in advertising to protect their nest.
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