Sentences with phrase «rubber rooms»

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

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.

Part of this is our pledge to end 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.

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.

The 2017 Panamera boasts so many standard and optional safety systems it's almost a four - wheeled rubber room.

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

As the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, has increased efforts to get rid of teachers the city deems ineffective, the number of teachers in rubber rooms has grown.

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.

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

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

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

You don't even know the history of your own cult (not church... it is far from that) and the stories you have been fed are lies to make you keep following the lies told by a convicted con - man... you're clearly delusional and in need of mental health help - locate the nearest asylum, urn your children over to child - protective se4rvices and enjoy a stay in a rubber room where they can help you... you're clearly not living in reality.

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?

and again... Wtf is a rubber room... Am guessing one that erases short term memory (but heightens memories of anything older than a decade ago)... I thought robot technology had advanced in recent years but obviously not

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...

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 ok you are in a rubber room an aliens are telling you that you like a club but should say only bad things about it complain about winning trophies they say complain about making cup finals they say you are in a rubber room

I know this because I know someone who soundproofed his bedroom with the stuff, before that he used egg cartons and went around the estate asking everyone for their egg cartons before getting the rubber room.

Wtf is a rubber room... Am guessing one that erases short term memory (but heightens memories of anything older than a decade ago)... I thought robot technology had advanced in recent years but obviously not

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.

Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott said that allowing some teachers to bypass termination hearings, admit problems and pay a fine to resume their careers is part of the reform that ended the rubber rooms.

NYC Schools Chancellor - in - waiting Dennis Walcott defended fines teachers pay to get out of the rubber room.

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

Three of NYC's longest - running «rubber room» teachers have raked in more than $ 1 million each for a decade of not working in classrooms, and a fourth is paid a top salary — $ 100,049 a year — not to teach.

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.»

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.»

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.

Guggenheim dedicates much time to the crippling bureaucracy enforced by the unions, which make it almost impossible to fire teachers not pulling their weight and which in New York City finds teachers accused of misconduct continuing to collect their salaries killing time in reassignment centers (the infamous «rubber rooms») while awaiting review of their cases.

There's no defense for LIFO, for «bumping rights,» for rubber rooms, and all of the rest.

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.

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»).

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.

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