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Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.

Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its "rubber rooms" — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings.

The 700 or so teachers can practice yoga, work on their novels, paint portraits of their colleagues — pretty much anything but school work. They have summer vacation just like their classroom colleagues and enjoy weekends and holidays through the school year.

700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing - Yahoo! News

It is good to be a teacher! It is good to be a member of a powerful union, especially when you are employed by stupid government. You see if you work for a business, you can still do this if your union is powerful enough but eventually the business you work for will go out of business. The government never goes out of business though. Not only it does not go out of business, it will also bail the businesses you and your union destroyed as in the cases of General Motors and Chrysler.

Some other school systems likewise pay teachers to do nothing.

The Los Angeles district, the nation's second-largest school system with 620,000 students, behind New York's 1.1 million, said it has 178 teachers and other staff members who are being "housed" while they wait for misconduct charges to be resolved.

This is the same district that held demonstrations for more money for teachers just recently.

This is the same state where liberal democRAT legislators working to pay $7 million back to the teachers' union even though the voters said no.

Listen to these stories:

David Suker, who has been in a Brooklyn reassignment center for three months, said he has used the time to plan summer trips to Alaska, Cape Cod and Costa Rica. Suker said he was falsely accused of throwing a girl's test sign-up form in the garbage during an argument.

"It's sort of peaceful knowing that you're going to work to do nothing," he said.

Philip Nobile is a journalist who has written for New York Magazine and the Village Voice and is known for his scathing criticism of public figures. A teacher at Brooklyn's Cobble Hill School of American Studies, Nobile was assigned to a rubber room in 2007, "supposedly for pushing a boy while I was breaking up a fight." He contends the school system is retaliating against him for exposing wrongdoing.

He is spending his time working on his case and writing magazine articles and a novel.

Your tax money is paying these people to do nothing because your government is either too stupid or in the pockets of the teachers' unions.

Why not get a job as a teacher in one of these districts and get yourself into a situation like these people did and get paid for doing nothing until it is sorted out which seems like forever.

News Teachers' Union

California voters said no, but Democratic lawmakers are pushing to do it anyhow.

The issue involves billions of dollars and a ballot measure so important to schools that the California Teachers Association spent more than $7 million in a failed attempt to pass Proposition 1B.

One month after the initiative died, Democrats are proposing to pay schools the same $7.9 billion that was the heart of the measure and to begin payments the same year, 2011-2012.

Democrats want California schools to get billions that voters rejected - SacBee.com Sunday, June 21, 2009

A California law requiring high school seniors to pass a high-stakes exit exam before receiving their diplomas is targeted for elimination, at least temporarily, because of the state's fiscal mess.

Democratic legislators are pushing the idea of lifting the mandate, arguing that it's not fair to expect schools hammered by budget cuts to meet every threshold they have in the past.

Democrats push to suspend California high school exit exam SacBee.com Thursday, Jun. 18, 2009

It is hard to read these two stories without getting angry...

This is what liberal democRATs are all about: Elections do not matter. People's will does not matter. They will either try to overturn the ballot box results by going to court as they did in response to the passage of proposition 8, or they will use bureaucratic schemes as they are doing here. Californians spoke clearly on May 19, 2009:

Voters who chose to vote said NO MORE TAXES, NO MORE BORROWING, NO MORE HANDOUTS TO UNIONS and NO MORE PAY RAISES for you politicians. They said all those things by a 3 to 1 margin. It is simple as that.

California's liberal democRATs are paying back $7 million to their teachers' union buddies. California's liberal democRATs do not want to keep teachers accountable either. California High School Exit Exam is a joke! California's High School students are failing a test based on 7th grade level. Evidently it still is too much work for California teachers to educate California kids to the 7th grade level. Maybe they should spend a little less time demonstrating for more money while trying to block school vouchers, private schools and even home schooling.

Liberal democRATs keep paying them for a job well done: Dumb down the American youth. Indoctrinate them with anti-American, socialist, enviro-marxist ideologies so they can be easily fooled by people like Obama and liberal democRATs.

You really need to be educated by California teachers and fail CaHSEE to be fooled by what liberal democRATs are claiming here folks: "We cannot afford to educate our kids to grade level standards so we should not test them but we will still give $7 million to our beloved teachers although the heartless California voters said we shouldn't." Hooray for teachers not teaching our kids! Give them more money! If you are a product of California schools you probably won't bother to ask "How much of the General Fund Budget is spent on Education?" The answer is very easy to find here: "While it has changed over time and changes somewhat from year-to-year, about 52 to 55 percent of the State General Fund Budget is spent on K–12 and Higher Education." Yet, it still is not enough folks... Most of the money goes to the administrators and teachers. Listen to this:

King said Katehi's $400,000 salary is 25 percent less than what is earned by chancellors at similar universities. The chancellor also will be provided with housing, a $9,000 annual car allowance and a $100,000 relocation allowance, as well as moving expenses, among other benefits.

UC backs new UC Davis chief, won't probe her role in Illinois controversy - SacBee.com Jun. 18, 2009

That is how much -- $400,000 plus a year -- one California University is paying for its chancellor. These are the same people who complain about what corporations pay to their executives. At least the corporations are not confiscating our money as the liberal democRATs do.

News California, Teachers' Union