Sentences with phrase «in rubber rooms»

To begin with, Brill extrapolates unfairly and too much from his time spent in the rubber rooms with some of New York's worst educators.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew told delegates at the March 24 Delegate Assembly that the chancellor's testimony earlier that day averred that the best way to fix the city budget was to save money by «removing seniority layoff provisions, and firing the ATRs and everybody in the rubber rooms.»

More than you'd expect — and I swear this isn't a joke about unfireable teachers in rubber rooms.

Religious people with their ideas belong in a rubber room, not be out and about espousing their nonsense.

Austin: Rainer is a proven liar... he means you, that is obvious from his other lies... if you believe him, then you truly belong with him in a rubber room safely out of society.

Persons with that pathology belong in the rubber room, not public office.

Sara Mosle, in her judicious review in the New York Times, notes that although 1 percent of the New York City teachers may have been in the rubber room, 20 percent of teachers quit after the first year, and 40 percent have left after three years.

And, oh, yeah, close the ones they don't want, and maybe stop paying the teachers in the rubber room so you can afford the above — the DOE continues forcing square pegs into round holes, and pronouncing every initiative they roll out a triumph based on the number of children enrolled.

Presumably, all of those traditional school graduates had state - certified teachers (just like the nearly 1,000 currently twiddling their thumbs in the rubber room).

Under current procedures, teachers could be removed from the classroom for six months before charges are even filed, although in practice some teachers have sat in the rubber room for years without formal charges.

you and the rest of the droids belong together, in a rubber room with a straight jacket on, since you have totally lost your minds since sony isn't dominant anymore.

Not exact matches

«Even if it's a prototype you mock up in your dorm room that's put together with tape and rubber bands,» Mitchell says, «You're going to learn more by having something out there.»

Models for a photography seminar struggled into rubber in the corner of a conference room, hopping like vacationers putting on swimsuits at the beach.

The Anglo - French financier Sir James Goldsmith (who had exited the stock market earlier in the summer) compared his position to «winning a rubber of bridge in the card room of the Titanic.»

If Indian officials were to move forward with anti-conversion legislation or other policies directed at Christians, «he would be a good rubber stamp for the government,» said Sandeep Kumar, a church planter and principal of Mission India Bible College, in an interview with CT. «There is no room for Christians in his understanding.»

One advantage of the empty nest is that it's possible to spread out a foam rubber mat in front of the den or living room fireplace, put some sensual music on the stereo, or have the TV or radio on, if you like a little simulated exhibitionism while making love.

A more secure method to store them at room temperature is to keep them in glass jars with a tight - fitting, rubber - sealed top.

I love the look of fiddle leaf figs, monstera deliciosas, snake plants, and rubber plants — all of which you'll find in my living room (pictured above).

Jon get out the rubber room your still complaining about winning trophies and competing for cup finals and the premiership a mere two seasons ago we have won 5 and been in 8 final games where in last ten seasons where are you?

lol... i think its a whole psycho thing about his marital issues... whose wearing the trousers etc he genuinely needs medical help... is there a shrink in the house???? maybe the guy who goes on about the «rubber room» can give some useful advice for once... you cant make this stuff up you really cant

I have two rooms full of toys and musical things, like electric keyboard, older computer to learn things on «ABC.com», (a subscription service for 2 + yrs old children), and battery operated toys that are musical, or talk, or walk, or beep, or run, blocks and puzzles, plush toys and soft rubber balls, and when no babies around, I blow up lots of balloons which they throw up in the air and try to catch, or I bring out all the «kitchen stuff» (a collection of plastic dish sets, plastic fake food and utensils, and a big tablecloth I lay it all on and then pick it all up with until next time).

Spirited kids are the Super Ball in a room full of rubber balls.

While literally everyone else in the room lifted their shirts and nursed their babies, I took out a plastic bottle of pumped breastmilk from my mini-cooler, mixed in fortified formula, attached a rubber nipple, and gave it to my baby.

Then, pack away the extra toys into labeled rubber bins or old boxes (a good use for all of those diaper boxes) and place them out of sight in a closet, basement, or laundry room.

My precious baby entered the world in a room with bright lights, surgical masks, rubber gloves, and immediate separation from me.

It is very easy to attach it to a door frame or stand and the floor is protected by the rubber clamps, so no paint damage; easy to store as it folds away into a tiny thing and thus taking no space in the room.

Unlike other diaper pails, this one is made of powder - coated steel and has rubber seals to keep those smells in the can instead of spreading it around the room.

Otherwise, this would have been just another rubber - stamp meeting of the «Three Men in A Room», doling out cash in a secretive and obscure process.

The neighbours found a bloodstained club on the floor of Diop's room and a rubber bag covered with bloodstains in a dustbin in the apartment.

Daniel Smith, a Bronx teacher accused of sexual misconduct in 2007, has been stuck in the «rubber room» way too long for a «trumped up» allegation and wants to sue the Department of Education for the right to get back to work.

The Bloomberg administration and the UFT are still locked in a protracted contract negotiation, although they did just announce a deal on doing away with so - called «rubber rooms.»

A rogues gallery of correction officers spends eight hours a day doing next to nothing in a Rikers Island rubber room, costing taxpayers millions each year, sources tell the NY Daily News.

In a press briefing at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Mexican archeologists say that the new rooms contained thousands of objects, including carved statues, rubber balls, jade from Guatemala and a wooden box of shellIn a press briefing at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Mexican archeologists say that the new rooms contained thousands of objects, including carved statues, rubber balls, jade from Guatemala and a wooden box of shellin Mexico City, Mexican archeologists say that the new rooms contained thousands of objects, including carved statues, rubber balls, jade from Guatemala and a wooden box of shells.

A 1937 Better Homes and Gardens story said that using «Hormodin isn't any more difficult than playing with the chemistry set you bought Junior» and that the compounds would make nature «hurry up, [and] jump thru hoops» or even to «make a raincoat out of the rubber plant in your living room.»

Once I get in the locker room, I walk back and forth several times on this thick rubber floor mat with these big holes throughout the mat that drain the water.

Borderline autistic and obsessive - compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one - way ticket to the rubber room.

Himself whip - smart and politically savvy, Brill made instant news when he took on the city's teachers union in a 2009 New Yorker story about the city's notorious «rubber rooms,» where bad teachers went to soak up full salaries while doing nothing.

Educators are trapped in a Kafkaesque maze of contracts, rubrics, and rubber rooms.

They have been spending their days in what used to be called the «rubber room,» not teaching but still being paid.

To learn more about the rubber room, please read «Great Teachers in the Classroom,» a review, by Nathan Glazer, of a book by Steve Brill about school reform.

And that teacher watching the kid in the «rubber room» was probably mandated to do so via the PPT process!

with teachers from the Absent Teacher Reserve, also known as «the rubber room,» where pedagogues who have been let go from previous positions and haven't managed to find another are paid their full salary to sit and do nothing because they can not be fired, even in cases of

Thus unions defend teachers in «rubber rooms» — where they are sent after being accused of improper behavior or found to be extraordinarily ineffective — on the grounds that due process rights require such treatment.

(In a perverse way, rubber rooms are good as long as it is not feasible to remove teachers that are harming kids; it is better to pay these teachers not to teach than to have more children suffer.)

Hundreds of teachers sit in so - called rubber rooms in New York City, playing cards, video games, whatever, collecting their salaries, maintaining their healthcare benefits and adding dollars to their defined benefit pensions.

As they awaited the due process hearings guaranteed in their union contracts, rubber room teachers received full pay and benefits, sometimes for up to three years.

Thanks to articles and documentaries such as Waiting for «Superman,» most of us have an image seared into our brain of a slew of know - nothing teachers, removed from the classroom after years of sleeping through class, sitting in state - funded «rubber rooms» while continuing to draw hefty salaries.

And sometimes, by the way, tenure comes with explicit but unintended financial costs: Some school systems pay non-negligible numbers of ineffective teachers to do nothing in «rubber rooms,» and the Sisyphean firing process can cost a school several times a teacher's salary.

In mid-April, Mulgrew agreed with Klein to streamline the teacher - discipline process in a way that, by the end of the year, will close New York's so - called rubber rooms, the infamous «reassignment centers» where the New York City teachers charged with the most extreme incompetence or misconduct (currently 600 out of 80,000) are sent to do nothing while they await tenure - protected arbitration hearingIn mid-April, Mulgrew agreed with Klein to streamline the teacher - discipline process in a way that, by the end of the year, will close New York's so - called rubber rooms, the infamous «reassignment centers» where the New York City teachers charged with the most extreme incompetence or misconduct (currently 600 out of 80,000) are sent to do nothing while they await tenure - protected arbitration hearingin a way that, by the end of the year, will close New York's so - called rubber rooms, the infamous «reassignment centers» where the New York City teachers charged with the most extreme incompetence or misconduct (currently 600 out of 80,000) are sent to do nothing while they await tenure - protected arbitration hearings.

The film provided statistics about the inability to fire teachers and exposed the infamous «rubber rooms» in New York where disgraced teachers are put «on hold» but not dismissed, at an annual cost of $ 65 million.