Paying Teachers NOT to Teach in NY

Posted on May 9, 2008

-By Warner Todd Huston

And for another perfect example of why teachers unions is antithetical to the welfare of the kids AND the budget of the state, we have a union that has forced the State of New York to spend $81 million dollars to pay teachers NOT to teach!

The New York Times gives us the wasteful tale of money paid for NO work.

The New Teacher Project, which estimates that the city has been paying $81 million over two years in salaries and benefits for teachers who have not been able to find permanent jobs.

Under the new free-market system, teachers who lose their jobs because of budget cuts, program curtailments or school closings are supposed to go into a reserve pool for a short time before they are hired elsewhere in the system. An overwhelming majority of more than 2,700 teachers sent into the pool in 2006 did just that.

So, these teachers are paid even if they don’t work?

This is the ultimate union job. Get paid a high salary, free health care, pension…. but not have to work AT ALL!

It doesn’t seem to occur to anyone that the solution is to fire teachers that you have no job for?

Apparently not.

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2 Responses to “Paying Teachers NOT to Teach in NY”

T F Stern on May 9th, 2008 9:09 am

Hey, what’s the big deal? Farmers get paid not to plant crops; teachers should be able to reap the same benefits. From what I’ve seen this may be a break even deal anyway, students graduating without being able to read or do basic math in some cases would tend to show there’s not much teaching going on even when the teachers show up and work.

On a side note, my being a retired cop would put me in the role of ideal civil servant; I don’t need to show up for work and they still have to pay me. While contemplating the import of such a statement, the pay I received while on the job wasn’t that great and each time we were up for a pay raise they would explain how they couldn’t afford to increase our pay; but to make it up they would increase our retirement percentage, knowing that a greater percentage of cops quit and never make retirement. I finally got to them.
robert cassidy on May 9th, 2008 10:03 am

The concept of rewarding idleness assures economic collapse …..America teems with millions of economic illiterates and quite logically is governed by populist nincompoops.
…A ship of fools ….
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