No wonder New York City (a) is running out of money and (b) has one of the suckiest school systems in the country. Read this from today’s New York Post and weep [h/t Jammie Wearing Fool]:
School creep’s detention haul
By SUSAN EDELMAN and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
January 31, 2010A Queens teacher who collects a $100,000 salary for doing nothing spends time in a Department of Education “rubber room” working on his law practice and managing 12 real-estate properties worth an estimated $7.8 million, The Post found.
Alan Rosenfeld hasn’t set foot in a classroom for nearly a decade since he was accused in 2001 of making lewd comments to junior-high girls and “staring at their butts,” yet the department still pays him handsomely for sitting on his own butt seven hours a day.
In 2001, six eighth-graders at IS 347 in Queens accused Rosenfeld, a typing teacher who filled in for an absent dean, of making comments like “You have a sexy body,” asking one whether she had a boyfriend and making others feel uncomfortable with creepy leers.
TEACHERS GONE WILD!: ‘LOVE BOAT’ PROM SCANDAL
Because the Department of Education could not produce all the students as witnesses, he was found guilty in only one case. A girl testified that Rosenfeld stopped at her locker, where she was standing with a friend, and “said I love him because I talk to him so much.”
A DOE hearing officer gave him a slap on the wrist—a week off without pay—for “conduct unbecoming a teacher.” He was cleared to return to teaching.
Instead, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has kept the scruffy 64-year-old in a Brooklyn rubber room, deeming him too dangerous to be near kids, officials said.
The DOE can’t fire him.
“We have to abide by the union contract,” spokeswoman Ann Forte said.
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.
Meanwhile, the multimillionaire Rosenfeld lords over the rubber room, where he is the oldest and most veteran of 100 teachers. …
If this happened in the private sector, this guy would have been fired on the spot. Isn’t it nice that the teacher union allows their members to engage in sexual harrassment of minors without fear of termination or even criminal charges? This slime should thank G0d one of the girls he harrassed wasn’t my daughter.
This guy Alan Rosenfeld is a human parasite. He represents everything that is wrong with this country. He takes advantage of the young and vulnerable, and—because of a fixed system skewed to favor him and not his employer and "customers" (i.e., the students)—his "punishment" is anything but: He makes money off the taxpayer sitting in a taxpayer-funded facility and doing nothing to benefit them. At the same time, he makes money for himself on the side.
End the occupation! Liberals out of the schools now!
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