"rubber rooms": teachers' unions "at work"

From World...

Where can a person get paid $70,000 or more per year to play Scrabble, write a novel, or surf the internet? How about New York City's public schools where 700 suspended teachers have waited as long as six years for disciplinary hearings. Thanks to tough union laws, these suspended teachers—accused of such acts as insubordination, lying, or cheating—receive full pay and holidays while barred from classrooms at an annual cost of $65 million...