Another example of how Unions and especially government Unions have outlived their usefulness.

Many are raving about a long, detailed New Yorker story published by Steven Brill.

His story is called THE RUBBER ROOM.

… It’s a June morning, and there are fifteen people in the room, four of them fast asleep, their heads lying on a card table. Three are playing a board game. Most of the others stand around chatting. Two are arguing over one of the folding chairs. But there are no children here.

The inhabitants are all New York City schoolteachers who have been sent to what is officially called a Temporary Reassignment Center but which everyone calls the Rubber Room.

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. …

read it – THE RUBBER ROOM

The Teacher’s Union is blamed by many for the waste of money and resources that is the Rubber Room.

If you no longer read, like me, you can listen to the story on NPR’s This American Life. Click PLAY Full Episode.

CORY DOCTOROW linked to a preview of a documentary being put together by one of the teachers from the Rubber Room. The other side of the story.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Same situation in the Los Angeles Unified School District.