teachers paid for ot working

While in cash strapped California hundreds of teachers are receiving pink slips, hundreds of teachers in New York are being paid for doing nothing.

Seven hundred New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around for eight hours a day, and do whatever they want to pass the time.

Because union contracts make it hard to fire them the teachers have been banished to so-called “rubber rooms”, off-campus office spaces where they sit for months and sometimes years waiting for their disciplinary hearings. Because the teachers are still collecting their full salaries of about seventy thousand dollars this ends up costing taxpayers sixty five million dollars a year.  read more »