Here’s an interesting little article on what happens to teachers who aren’t allowed in the classrooms anymore due to various accusations:
700 NYC Teachers Are Paid To Do Nothing
What I love most of all about this article is how it spins to sound as if every teacher in those little rubber rooms has been wrongfully accused.
Chances are, yes, some of them have been wrongfully accused. But then again, chances are, quite a lot of them have been rightly accused, too.
Seems to me, more and more, that the public education system really isn’t about teaching kids at all anymore.
If it ever was, that is.
That is unbelievable. Truth is stranger than fiction. You can bet that if it was a corporation’s unionized employees that the company would find a way for them to remain productive while awaiting their “hearing”, but since it’s our money, that’s not important.
My favorite thing about the article is how outrageous it seems that teachers are made to sit in a hard chair doing busy work all day. Isn’t that really all that school is for the kids?
Wow, Hillary. That’s pretty amazing if you think about it. Thanks for posting that thought – really made me stop and think.
RegSis
Totally ditto what Hilary said. They should be professional busy-workers . . . they prescribe it to children all day every day.
And we wonder why NYC has a budget problem. As a NYC resident, I chalk this up to “one more reason to homeschool.”
Doesn’t this just make you want to throw up? Ugh!