To paraphrase Rod Serling, “You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Teachers’ Union Zone!”
The New York Post says things just don’t add up:
The Department of Education pays about 1,500 teachers for time they spend on union activities — and pays other teachers to replace them in the classroom.
It’s a sweetheart deal that costs taxpayers an extra $9 million a year to pay fill-ins for instructors who are sprung — at full pay — to carry out responsibilities for the United Federation of Teachers.
With Mayor Bloomberg calling for thousands of teacher layoffs to balance the 2012 budget, critics say it’s time to halt the extravagant benefit.
Why the hell does the Department of Education pay for union reps to do union business? Isn’t that an expense any reasonable person would say should be paid by the union?
Oh, wait. That’s the answer. The words reasonable and union should never be used in the same sentence.
H/T: Reader kb
Source: New York Post
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WTH?! This is disgusting. No wonder the states are broke becaus who says this is only New York? Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
Atlas Shrugged Movie on Tax day. Go see it opening day if you can so other theaters will pick it up.
http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/
On Tax Day?! That is awesome!
it should be required reading by every one in congress, maybe they might get a clue! who is John Galt?
It's worse than you know. There are hundreds of New York public school teachers who get full pay and benefits for doing nothing. These are teachers who are incompetent, violent, drug addled or have acted "inappropriately"
toward students. They should be fired but it is so difficult, expensive and time consuming to give them the boot that it is easier to simply keep them out of the classroom. So they sit around all day doing crossword puzzles, sufing the net, reading and taking long lunch breaks. Pehaps, after many years, some will actually be fired but many of them just retire after "working" the requisite time.
Yep. I have heard of that and that has pissed me off. It is BECAUSE they are so disgusting that they do go ahead and bilk the tax payers this way. The proper teachers say no thank you and move on with their lives and sadly if (more than likely) were falsely accused, it is the students (again) that get the wrong side of everything.
Yes, the so-called rubber rooms. Apparently, some have been allowed to retire (still a drain on taxpayers, resign, some have had charges brought against them but the majority of these crappy teachers are back on the payroll?? WTF?
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-03-12/local/28699686_1_rubber-rooms-teachers-union-president-classroom
Why are we so suprised? This is and has always been a union tactic! This falls right in line with Lenin's pronouncement: "And the Capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them with!'
Yet another reason to shut down the DoE. It's so funny to see the quizzical, puppy-dog look on a lib's face when you say that.