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Letters to the Editor — Jan. 22, 2023
Post readers sound off on ‘Spare’ danger, ‘cursed’ nonsense and teachers’ plight.
Idled NYC educators do nothing but sign in remotely, even from Europe
The suspended staffers, while fully paid, are required to do nothing but sign in and out by email and “stay in the NYC area.”
Looks like NYC is stuck with less-than-stellar teachers
It looks like the death of the city Department of Education’s Absent Teacher Reserve pool, sometimes called the "rubber room," was greatly exaggerated, Chalkbeat reports. And now teachers assigned to...
Suspended teachers serve time in DOE 'rubber rooms' — at home
Home is the new rubber room. Since the COVID-19 shutdown, scores of city educators removed from classrooms pending administrative trials have spent four months on the city payroll in the...
NYC promised to ban teacher 'rubber rooms' — they went underground instead
The eight city warehouses called “rubber rooms” were spaces of various sizes where up to 1,500 Department of Education employees at a time got paid their full salaries to sit...
Ex-rubber room teacher wins fight against 'rampant' DOE retaliation
Francesco Portelos who once live-streamed himself in a rubber room has forced the city Department of Education to publicly admit it wrongly retaliated against him.
NYC pays 'rubber room' teacher $1.7M over 20 years after sex abuse claims
It’s his 20th anniversary in the rubber room. Aryeh Eller taught orchestral music at Hillcrest High School in Queens for just two full years before being suspended in November 1999...
Endanger the public, keep your job: Why these workers are so hard to fire
Forget three strikes and you’re out: If you’re an MTA bus driver, you can rack up 10 strikes, maybe more — and still keep your job. In disciplinary actions from...
This teacher doesn't belong in a rubber room
It’s easy to see why teacher Nina Kossman is no longer welcome at the Razi Private Islamic School in Queens — but far harder to understand why she’s stuck in...
If you resent getting paid to nap, find another job
It’s hard not to feel a little sympathy for David Suker: He’s severely unhappy sitting around and even napping in libraries and lounges to “earn” his $94,000 salary. On the...
$100 million wasted per year, and de Blasio doesn't care
Does Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña feel any shame over the resources wasted on “rubber rooms”? It’s one of the most notorious long-running scandals of the city school system: Teachers paid...
Teachers trapped in rubber rooms for years, still collect full pay and raises
They’ve been rubber marooned for five to seven years each. The city Department of Education has kept three accused teachers on the payroll, but confined to menial office tasks since...
Mayor de Blasio owns this 'inequality trap'
Mayor de Blasio rails against “inequality” — yet he’s doing everything in his power to keep city schools unequal. That’s what brought hundreds of parents to rally at City Hall...
Is the city sneaking bad teachers from the 'rubber rooms' back into the schools?
It turns out plenty of bad teachers are making their way from the so-called “rubber rooms” back into New York City classrooms without ever changing their ways. Five months ago,...