Rubber Room Nyc

New york october 09.

Rubber room nyc.

Among teachers they are referred to as rubber rooms. A view of a classroom at the redu project presented by bing on october 9 2010 in new york city. The rubber room is a 2010 documentary film about the reassignment centers run by the new york city department of education which the filmmakers claim exist in various forms in school districts across the united states allegedly intended to serve as temporary holding facilities for teachers accused of various kinds of misconduct who are awaiting an official hearing these reassignment centers. The inhabitants are all new york city schoolteachers who have been sent to what is officially called a temporary reassignment center but which everyone calls the rubber room.

An idle rubber room in queens where teachers gather to kill time several teachers on the payroll have been benched for up to five years due to a stunning bureaucratic breakdown. The city has 13 reassignment centers. Reassignment centers are holding facilities for the new york city department of education where more than 600 teachers accused of misconduct have been paid to work full time doing nothing for months or years at a time while awaiting resolution of their cases.