I cannot come close to doing justice to this story, so I will describe it briefly and allow you to follow the link if interested.
When teachers misbehave (severely) or are accused sometimes falsely of doing so, they are sent to a kind of teaching purgatory, where they sit day after day while someone investigates just what happened. This can take weeks, months or years. In the meantime they sit and do nothing all day long except collect their full pay. This "rubber room" is a holding room (or actually series of rooms) where teachers play cards, read, argue, sleep, just do whatever they want.
This 23 minute news radio program is produced by NPR and if you advance the arrow at the bottom to the 7:25 mark this story will begin. Los Angeles also has a room like this where a colleague of mine was just released after several months. He was released because it was discovered a student of his had made a false accusation about inappropriate contact. http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/CPRadio_player.php?podcast=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/xmlfeeds/350.xml&proxyloc=http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/customproxy.php
When teachers misbehave (severely) or are accused sometimes falsely of doing so, they are sent to a kind of teaching purgatory, where they sit day after day while someone investigates just what happened. This can take weeks, months or years. In the meantime they sit and do nothing all day long except collect their full pay. This "rubber room" is a holding room (or actually series of rooms) where teachers play cards, read, argue, sleep, just do whatever they want.
This 23 minute news radio program is produced by NPR and if you advance the arrow at the bottom to the 7:25 mark this story will begin. Los Angeles also has a room like this where a colleague of mine was just released after several months. He was released because it was discovered a student of his had made a false accusation about inappropriate contact. http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/CPRadio_player.php?podcast=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/xmlfeeds/350.xml&proxyloc=http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/customproxy.php
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