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Last Day of 'Rubber Rooms' for Teachers

  • 01-07-2010 4:02pm
    #1
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/education/29rubber.html?_r=1&hp

    Turns out that America used to make suspended teachers that they cannot fire sit in a windowless room all day until they go mad and quit.

    They are now stopping that, and instead putting them to admin work.

    Does anyone know what we do with suspended teachers awaiting a hearing?
    Do we just send them home?


Comments

  • #2
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,311 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I'd gladly swap jobs with them.


  • #3
    Nate--IRL--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--


    The_Minister wrote: »

    Does anyone know what we do with suspended teachers awaiting a hearing?
    Do we just send them home?

    Make them TDs?

    Nate


  • #4
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    When I was in school... it was the students that got suspended...


  • #5
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Who teaches the teachers?.........Oh wait..........Really doesn't work in that instance.............Damn!


  • #6
    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    I wish someone paid me to sit on my hole all day.


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  • #7
    Duggy747
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    PeterIanStaker wrote: »
    I wish someone paid me to sit on my hole all day.

    Sign up for the Dole, then. :pac:


  • #8
    silverspoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭silverspoon


    Can I just add in a hearty 'WTF?' to the whole rubber room concept?


  • #9
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Didn't an Post do something similar?


  • #10
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    silverspoon wrote: »
    Can I just add in a hearty 'WTF?' to the whole rubber room concept?

    You can't fire them for being bad at their job as they are unionised and in the public service. So you hope they quit or give a really good reason to fire them by making the working day so horribly boring that they want to. It sort of works.


  • #11
    ejmaztec
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    I think they only get suspended here if they kill someone, after which they're on full pay, whilst being re-habilitated on a string of world cruises until they retire.


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  • #12
    silverspoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭silverspoon


    I can see the logic behind making the working day so intolerable that it forces them to quit, which of course = problem solved, but surely if they're suspended pending a hearing, there's some sort of guilt/innocence/human rights issue coming into play? It's a weird solution to the problem IMO.
    Then, when I think of all the terrible teachers I've had who couldn't be fired...


  • #13
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    When I was in school... it was the students that got suspended...
    My thoughts exactly.

    I say they got what they earned... but then again, holy **** thats brutal. I hope at least, they all learned the gravity of sending students to detention and in-school suspension - the student equivalent of rubber room treatment. And having done about a collective 2 months worth of ISS over my US school years let me tell you it Sucks.


  • #14
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Didn't an Post do something similar?
    As soon as I saw the thread title, it brought it all back.


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