Rubber Room

The Rubber Room | Aug. 31, 2009

An absolutely shocking article, a couple years old, that should be read by anyone interested in the difficulties admin sometimes faces when trying to dismiss the most ineffective and incompetent of teachers. In New York, for a inability to dismiss them, and an unwillingness to let them back in the classroom, teachers sit with pay day after day waiting for the union-admin battles over their fate to run their course.

It must be noted though, that the rooms are no longer being relied upon. Teachers will now "be assigned to administrative work or non-classroom duties in their schools while their cases are pending. "