Sentences with phrase «rubber room»

I write this to you from my rubber room, where other inmates have their own ideas such as salting the oceans with iron, leading to a proliferation of algae blooms and possible destruction of plankton and with consequences for life up the food chain.

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.

Once the Sergeant and his dog boarded the schooner and were up on the deck — a regular rubber room, this deck was!

And the press loves to highlight outrageous stories such as New York City's rubber room, where ineffective teachers, protected by tenure, spend years being paid to do nothing.

«Being one of the longer inhabitants of this academic purgatory, the closing of the rubber room is clearly going to be, I think, a good thing,» he said.

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.

The New York City Department of Education has chosen to ignore this factor by forcing principals from 39 schools to hire 41 teachers from what was dubbed the «rubber room,» via Steven Brill's New Yorker essay, but is really called the Absent Teacher Reserve, or ATR.

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.

It is true that Cami Anderson created a «rubber room» for teachers deemed ineffective and that this decision was very expensive for the district.

Here's a case I brought forth where this «rubber room» was employed.

The ATR is more popularly known as «the rubber room,» via Steven Brill's 2009 New Yorker piece.

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).

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

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

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.

New York City teachers who have not found permanent jobs will be moved from the «rubber room,» where they have been paid for not teaching, into schools with vacancies whether the schools want them or not.

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.

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

The rubber room had been radically reduced by the time of Brill's book, from 744 to 83 teachers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Are you the same guy predicting fa cup victory would be a springboard back to EPL and cl glory... I think you are... We are a mid table team playing mid table footie..., that's where 10 years of wenger induced decline with episodic cup runs ends up... True fans want that changed the rest is just waffle... Anyone insisting wenger staying put will do it needs to be hauled off to the rubber room...

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?

Dodney's just jealous cause «it» has never gotten an education past grade 2... I'm surprised the asylum let this loon out of his rubber room so early... they'll be looking for you soon Dodney... best get to them first so they're not forced to restrain you for yet another week after injecting you with the anti-psychotic meds you desperately require!!

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

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.

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

Here is the definition link for you: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supernatural So where would you like us to book your rubber room at?

Back to the rubber room right now young man!!!!

Cue the numerous tab stories about «rubber rooms.»

The New York Post on Sunday reported that some teachers dumped into those rubber rooms for alleged incompetence or misconduct pay an average $ 7,500 fine to resume teaching.

The DN praises UFT President Michael Mulgrew for striking a deal with the city to do away with so - called «rubber rooms.»

And concern over the slashing of teachers must be tempered by the years - long labor - management standoff that brought us the unforgivable waste of the «rubber rooms,» where teachers accused of wrongdoing would sit for weeks on end, doing no work - at a cost to the city of $ 30 million a year.

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.»

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

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.»

Far too smart to defend the indefensible, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew has struck a deal that will abolish the school system's notorious rubber rooms.

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.

Clarification: The «rubber rooms» where teachers used to be sent if they were accused of wrongdoing or incompetence have been phased out.

All of this while doggedly pursuing union reforms (he killed the infamous «rubber rooms»).

Use of «rubber rooms» is a poor reason to blame teachers for earning an honest day's pay!

At the same time, it keeps funding things from the unrestricted fund like the «rubber rooms» and a very large police department while calling it «school site resources».

His research had begun, after all, with an article he wrote for The New Yorker about New York City's so - called rubber rooms, where incompetent teachers did nothing — at full pay — for years, while their cases were adjudicated.

For a long time now, major urban city districts have used «rubber rooms» to oust veteran teachers, minority teachers, political rascals who won't keep their mouths shut about the districts (at both the local / school and central office level.

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.)