Paid...to do nothing.

[LargoWinch]

While you are busting your butt off to make sure you are not the next one to get fired :

700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing

By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jun 22, 5:20 pm ET

NEW YORK – Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.

Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its "rubber rooms" — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings.

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AP article here.

Long-live Government spending! :rolleyes:

[cjppjc]

Re: Paid...to do nothing.

This has been going on for decades.

[LargoWinch]

Re: Paid...to do nothing.

This has been going on for decades.

...but does not make it right. ;)

[cjppjc]

Re: Paid...to do nothing.

...but does not make it right. ;)

I agree. I didn't read the article. I wasn't sure if it was mentioned.

[BK]

Re: Paid...to do nothing.

Teacher Unions on the East Coast and West Coasts - have got Taxpayers and Cities/Towns in a Death grib. In many of the best towns there are teachers getting paid $90,0000. Now I realize this is not a fortune. But, if consider that these teachers get July,August,plus an additional other 4-5 weeks in days off. Many teachers also accrue massive numbers of sick days - when you retire you may have accrued 200-300 sick days which many towns then pay you for (we private sector works are chumps).
(dislaimer - my dad was a teacher before unions (1960s is when unions got into the teaching professions around Boston Metro Area) - benefits and pay were lousy before unions.

It was very noble for Politicians top agree to greater and greater pay for Teachers, Policemen, and Firefighter. There are lots of great people in the ranks and our society depends on them doing a great job.

So, this sets up a very fragile education system that only works when the FIRE Industries are firing on all cylinders. But, the pay scale was built on revenues thrown off by the FIRE Industry and Tax payers happy to pay higher property taxes as their Property wealth increased.

I just don't see how Towns/Cities continue to pay these salaries and benefits at these levels. The volume of teachers and public workers requires massive amounts of tax receipts to function.

[wayiwalk]

Re: Paid...to do nothing.

I'd go one step further and suggest that most of the above market benefits paid to the public sector, as well as entitlements paid by the public sector, are no longer sustainable, and maybe never have been....we've been sustaining this system off the savings of our forefathers, and this system is going to fail!

[flintlock]

Re: Paid...to do nothing.

I'd go one step further and suggest that most of the above market benefits paid to the public sector, as well as entitlements paid by the public sector, are no longer sustainable, and maybe never have been....we've been sustaining this system off the savings of our forefathers, and this system is going to fail!

I've been saying this for years. Over inflated salaries across the board. People are going to have to learn to get by on less. Which considering how high a lot of Americans were living, shouldn't be too hard. Well, whoops, except for all that debt they ran up in the boom. That may be a problem.