Unions, creepiness, whatever. What I really wanna know is how a typing teacher gets a yearly salary of $100K!!

have you seen the rabid protests by teachers bitching cause they might not get another 8% increase that Bloomberg wants to hold back cause the city is in a recession! Teachers salaries have increased 43% in the last 8 years!!! I want a 100k job where you work less than 180 days a year and get unemployment on your summer vacation!

They don't get unemployment on their summer vacation (at least not in NYC). My friend's a teacher in Queens and he leaves work the last day of school with a stack of post-dated paychecks. Then every two weeks during the summer he he goes to the bank and deposits one (while working a part-time tutoring job, off the books of course).

And I have no problem paying teachers well, because we want our kids to have good teachers. But all these pay raises should include more union concessions that allow the city to fire the bad teachers. Ultimately that is for everyone's benefit, including the union and its members.

The kind that goes to synagogue silly!!

Ya know, "chosen people"!!

Certainly the union has an issue to address here -- how to get the bad teachers out and still protect the interests of teachers who do a good job every single day. The trouble with articles like the above and the sensational angle they take is that they do nothing except generalize, giving ammunition to knee-jerk union haters by saying if one is like this, then all are like this. This is not a logical argument at all but I suspect that the article is not written for people who embrace logic.

Perhaps in the case of Rosenfeld, there is insufficient evidence aside from accusations to trigger any action beyond what they have already done. Guilt based upon the way a person looks or acts or smells is not a good measuring stick. Yes, it's entirely possible that a person is as guilty as they appear but that is not the way justice is supposed to work.

All the more reason to let mayoral control continue to try to lessen the stranglehold the teachers union has on our schools, to the benefit of the union and the detriment of our kids.

These teachers are moved from school to school instead of getting fired, they spend years getting paid in the rubber room cause they claim 'disciplinary hearings are delayed'. Well, for a lot less money, maybe they should speed up the proceedings! Let's tie teachers salary to performance, like everywhere else, and let's make sure any future union contracts take out these expensive and stupid rules.

Actually, exactly no one except yourself is saying 'if one is like this, they're all like this'. You're absolutely right that, if one were to say that, it would not be a logical argument at all.

Innocent until proven guilty - that's what you're getting at, right? - is a criminal trial benchmark. While an overall good principle, it is NOT the benchmark for civil trials or, more importantly, establishing/continuing employment.

The inability to dismiss even the incompetent (forget about the allegedly abusive) is a fundamental problem for New Yorkers. It is not a 'union issue'.

Union presidents portray their intransigence to reforming egregious hiring/firing/promotion limitations as some kind of moral fight. Every time the contract is up for negotiation, they smile across the table and pretend their shit don't stink.

I'm not in favor of getting rid of unions, but I am a huge fan of cutting them down in importance and rewriting the contract from scratch. In NYC, their influence is corrosive, both to our kids' best interests and to the local political landscape.

Well said.

You left out the best part: Mr. Rosenfeld is an attorney and real estate developer worth nearly $8 million.

But you left out the part where he also manages his little business empire from INSIDE the rubber room. (City rules forbid conducting personal business on DOE time.)

"A licensed attorney since 1973, Rosenfeld frequently talks on the phone [hello, you've reached the law offices of Alan M. Rosenfeld - lol] to clients and other lawyers, insiders say. 'He's always working,' one said."

Does Mr.Rosenfeld attend synagogue - can anyone verify?

of course the typing teacher is in a rubber room. Back when he was first suspended, people still had typewriters.

more stories like this. I hate public schools.

I believe the Union is the problem here.

Why do you think people hate unions? Well this is why they are corrupt

$100K a year for a TYPING TEACHER??

thats how jews roll. you should know that by now if you're a new yorker. look at bloomberg.

My typing teacher was a perv, too. His name was Mr. Mingo. He sexually assaulted female students and often made inappropriate remarks. Telling me "you're so fine" as you tell me my grade is just wrong.

Fortunately I went to one of the better high school in my districts so he was removed after complaints. Unfortunately they sent him to one of the worst high schools in my district where he was able to continue his harassment of teenage girls.

Any union contract that doesn't permit these teachers to be fired stinks. It gives unions a bad name. Better to fire all the teachers & dump the union. Hire back those who are willing to work without a union. This should not be impossible to do during the summer. This situation is impossible to maintain. These teachers are leeches sucking the money out of the city coffers.

Kinda like throwing out the baby with the bath water