"These fifteen teachers, along with about six hundred others, in six larger Rubber Rooms in the city’s five boroughs, have been accused of misconduct, such as hitting or molesting a student, or, in some cases, of incompetence, in a system that rarely calls anyone incompetent.
The teachers have been in the Rubber Room for an average of about three years, doing the same thing every day—which is pretty much nothing at all. Watched over by two private security guards and two city Department of Education supervisors, they punch a time clock for the same hours that they would have kept at school—typically, eight-fifteen to three-fifteen. Like all teachers, they have the summer off. The city’s contract with their union, the United Federation of Teachers, requires that charges against them be heard by an arbitrator, and until the charges are resolved—the process is often endless—they will continue to draw their salaries and accrue pensions and other benefits."
It's almost impossible to fire a teacher. Read up some of the "rubber rooms" operated in Los Angeles and New York.
"About 160 teachers and other staff sit idly in buildings scattered around the sprawling district, waiting for allegations of misconduct to be resolved.
The housed are accused, among other things, of sexual contact with students, harassment, theft or drug possession. Nearly all are being paid. All told, they collect about $10 million in salaries per year -- even as the district is contemplating widespread layoffs of teachers because of a financial shortfall."
"In 2008 I invited two policemen into my home and voluntarily gave them a DNA and fingerprint sample to help with a murder investigation, as they'd promised it would only be used for that investigation."
If the cops had been screening for stupidity you'd be in a lot of trouble.
And you can walk across the border from Mexico to the US. Ever wonder how things would going in Australia if you didn't have the Indian Ocean separating you from Indonesia?
Then how about Berkeley? That's only about 45 miles from Silicon Valley. Apparently, Berkeley High School is considering eliminating its science labs and teaching staff in order to help "struggling students".......
"The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.
Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous."
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And from New York:
"These fifteen teachers, along with about six hundred others, in six larger Rubber Rooms in the city’s five boroughs, have been accused of misconduct, such as hitting or molesting a student, or, in some cases, of incompetence, in a system that rarely calls anyone incompetent.
The teachers have been in the Rubber Room for an average of about three years, doing the same thing every day—which is pretty much nothing at all. Watched over by two private security guards and two city Department of Education supervisors, they punch a time clock for the same hours that they would have kept at school—typically, eight-fifteen to three-fifteen. Like all teachers, they have the summer off. The city’s contract with their union, the United Federation of Teachers, requires that charges against them be heard by an arbitrator, and until the charges are resolved—the process is often endless—they will continue to draw their salaries and accrue pensions and other benefits."
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_brill
It's almost impossible to fire a teacher. Read up some of the "rubber rooms" operated in Los Angeles and New York.
"About 160 teachers and other staff sit idly in buildings scattered around the sprawling district, waiting for allegations of misconduct to be resolved.
The housed are accused, among other things, of sexual contact with students, harassment, theft or drug possession. Nearly all are being paid. All told, they collect about $10 million in salaries per year -- even as the district is contemplating widespread layoffs of teachers because of a financial shortfall."
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/06/local/me-teachers6
"You may recall that McBride was the brains behind the Linux lawsuits....."
The brains?!?!? Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!
"In 2008 I invited two policemen into my home and voluntarily gave them a DNA and fingerprint sample to help with a murder investigation, as they'd promised it would only be used for that investigation."
If the cops had been screening for stupidity you'd be in a lot of trouble.
teabaggers
I'm not interested in hearing about your love life.
The kids get free black turtlenecks to wear after 10 years of employment. Sounds good to me.
How's that hope and change working out?
No wonder why they are so good.
But we have more lawyers and can simply sue them back to the Stone Age.
Barack Obama (PBUH) will discuss this with the Chinese government and they will tell the students to refrain from this sort of activity in the future.
I'll bet that would sting.
Does he ever leave the house?
Of course he does.....with a large, well-armed security detail.
Is a lot like the experience you have after having a few too many drinks and wandering into a dark alley at 3AM.
I'll bet Southwest will wish he really was Silent Bob.
And you can walk across the border from Mexico to the US. Ever wonder how things would going in Australia if you didn't have the Indian Ocean separating you from Indonesia?
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/id.htm
Then how about Berkeley? That's only about 45 miles from Silicon Valley. Apparently, Berkeley High School is considering eliminating its science labs and teaching staff in order to help "struggling students".......
"The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.
Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous."
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/berkeley-high-may-cut-out-science-labs/Content?oid=1536705
In California? Are you serious? California has always rewarded bright, young students interested in the sciences. Here's a recent example:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-school-chollas-view/
I believe the movie you're looking for starred Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.
Just because it's been done before doesn't mean it can't be remade with more special effects, a higher budget and worse actors.
Only if they're Scottish androids.
I can see this as a movie entitled "Kill Switch" with Arnold Schwarzenegger.......
With their heads jammed so far up their asses?
You also miss the point that multiculturalism is one of the greatest benefits of great cities like London. Why would you want to have less variety?
That used to be one of the great selling points of Sarajevo. Didn't work out too well, did it?
Wasn't it peer reviewed?
I wonder if developing countries are as paranoid about vaccinations as the 1st world ones are.
Many African Americans believe that AIDS was created in a CIA lab and is spread thru the use of vaccinations.
http://www.avert.org/origin-aids-hiv.htm
Africans think this is BS.
"Dr Chris Ouma, head of health programmes for the charity ActionAid Kenya, said that the claims “fly in the face of experience on the ground”."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article884626.ece
Time to join the 21st century:
https://www.world-of-toys.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=50740
Etch A Sketch.