http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:20:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-8677 anonymous Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:51:23 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-8677 I think the public is very misinformed about "teachers in the rubber rooms". Do you know that most of them were falsely accused by students or sent to rubber rooms by their principals out of spite? Child molesters don't go there; they go to jail and get fired Check out therubberroommovie.com I think the public is very misinformed about “teachers in the rubber rooms”. Do you know that most of them were falsely accused by students or sent to rubber rooms by their principals out of spite?
Child molesters don’t go there; they go to jail and get fired
Check out therubberroommovie.com

]]> http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-7565 Marni Goltsman Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:36:34 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-7565 This policy is horrible for the ASD Nest program! It prohibits them from hiring top notch student teachers whom Nest has groomed and trained through their affiliations with Hunter and NYU and who have graduated and are ready to teach, not to mention the superb para's who are currently in the Nest classrooms and are now qualified to be promoted to teaching positions. As a parent of an ASD Nest Kindergartener, I know how vital it is for my son to have excellent and well-trained teachers--we need to get the ASD Nest program exempted from this policy, and we need to do it NOW, before it's too late to train next year's teaching staff! This policy is horrible for the ASD Nest program! It prohibits them from hiring top notch student teachers whom Nest has groomed and trained through their affiliations with Hunter and NYU and who have graduated and are ready to teach, not to mention the superb para’s who are currently in the Nest classrooms and are now qualified to be promoted to teaching positions. As a parent of an ASD Nest Kindergartener, I know how vital it is for my son to have excellent and well-trained teachers–we need to get the ASD Nest program exempted from this policy, and we need to do it NOW, before it’s too late to train next year’s teaching staff!

]]> http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-7262 a parent Wed, 13 May 2009 12:15:10 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-7262 Hmm, could it be that the DOE is trying to use this hiring freeze in order to get parents angered over the current teacher's union contract? By putting teachers who have been pulled from the classroom, but are still collecting DOE paychecks, back into the classroom, maybe they're hoping for both principal and parent outrage, thereby proving that the consequence of unsatisfactory teaching should be dismissal.Sadly, the victims in this experiment are our children. Hmm, could it be that the DOE is trying to use this hiring freeze in order to get parents angered over the current teacher’s union contract? By putting teachers who have been pulled from the classroom, but are still collecting DOE paychecks, back into the classroom, maybe they’re hoping for both principal and parent outrage, thereby proving that the consequence of unsatisfactory teaching should be dismissal.Sadly, the victims in this experiment are our children.

]]> http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-7232 district 1 mom Tue, 12 May 2009 04:37:04 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-7232 Clearly this "hiring from the rubber room" is a ploy by the PR machine of the DOE to stir up the pot of angry parents further so that it boils over in fury. They want the parents to get so angry that they pull their kids out of the system and free up more seats for the kids on the waiting lists. These incompetents in the rubber room are not going to be put back to work. They were removed for a reason. Those reasons did not disappear. They are liabilities. Legal Liabilites. They will not be in front of a classroom. This is such B.S. Why not tell us that they are going to hire sex offenders next? How gullible do they think we are? Clearly this “hiring from the rubber room” is a ploy by the PR machine of the DOE to stir up the pot of angry parents further so that it boils over in fury. They want the parents to get so angry that they pull their kids out of the system and free up more seats for the kids on the waiting lists. These incompetents in the rubber room are not going to be put back to work. They were removed for a reason. Those reasons did not disappear. They are liabilities. Legal Liabilites. They will not be in front of a classroom. This is such B.S. Why not tell us that they are going to hire sex offenders next? How gullible do they think we are?

]]> http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-7230 In the System Tue, 12 May 2009 02:45:34 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-7230 What is worse about this is that school leaders, such as myself, will now have to hire from within, which limits our ability to select who we want to hire. Sometimes excessed teachers are not assigned for a reason! What is worse about this is that school leaders, such as myself, will now have to hire from within, which limits our ability to select who we want to hire. Sometimes excessed teachers are not assigned for a reason!

]]> http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-7223 fascinated Mon, 11 May 2009 23:12:22 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/05/11/best-and-brightest-need-not-apply/#comment-7223 How on earth are teachers assigned to the rubber room supposed to get hired out into schools? If they're in the rubber room then they were removed from schools under an accusation of wrong-doing. In the rubber room, they languish for months or years waiting for their cases to be heard. The wheels of justice for these teachers grind inexorably slowly, at the cost of $60 million dollars a year to keep paying their salaries until they're declared innocent and able to be hired again, or guilty and fired for cause. How on earth are teachers assigned to the rubber room supposed to get hired out into schools? If they’re in the rubber room then they were removed from schools under an accusation of wrong-doing. In the rubber room, they languish for months or years waiting for their cases to be heard. The wheels of justice for these teachers grind inexorably slowly, at the cost of $60 million dollars a year to keep paying their salaries until they’re declared innocent and able to be hired again, or guilty and fired for cause.

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