Every day hundreds of teachers in the New York City school system do not go to a classroom to teach. They go to a 'rubber room', a room where they simply sit around all day but still draw their full salary and benefits. Teachers are assigned to this room because they have been accused of something; it could be touching students, being late too many times or having too many parking tickets. The operative word is 'accused'; the accusation could be a student getting back at a teacher. Once accused the teacher must wait for the school's justice system to hear the case; that may be in a month or in years.
This seems to be quite draconian and costly (over $50,000,000 a year). Does it make sense?
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