Look for the Union Label

John Stossel has done some good reporting on the NYC "rubber room." Suspected pedophile teachers are shunted off to draw full salary, benefits and pensions (dey do got a Union contract!) without putting them in a classroom where they would likely hurt a student.

Scrivener links to a story of one guy -- just has to be read to be believed. Alan Rosenfeld "collects a $100,000 salary for doing nothing...working on his law practice and managing 12 real-estate properties worth an estimated $7.8 million..."

So Rosenfeld simply collects his $100,049 salary -- top scale for teachers -- plus full health benefits and the promise of a fat pension, about $82,000 a year if he were to retire today.

His pension will grow by $1,700 each year he remains. He could have retired at age 62, but he stays.

He has also accumulated about 435 unused sick days -- and will get paid for half of them when he retires. With city teachers trying to negotiate a 4 percent pay hike, Rosenfeld stands to get the raise.

All this largesse comes as Mayor Bloomberg threatens to cut 2,500 teachers to help close a $4 billion budget gap.

Maybe some brave politician will stand up to the Teachers' Union and demand that they repair this outrageous --- oh I do crack myself up sometime.

Education Posted by John Kranz at February 1, 2010 6:32 PM