Thursday, October 4, 2012

$74,000 Teacher Sits Doing Nothing

From the New York Daily News:
This Staten Island teacher wants the world to know he is paid $75,000 a year to do nothing all day long.
More than two years after the city shut down the so-called rubber rooms that served as detention centers for teachers, Francesco Portelos sat in front of a live cam Thursday, killing time.
“I want people to see where their tax dollars are going,” said Portelos, 34, who taught technology at Intermediate School 49 until last spring, when he got yanked from the classroom, he said.
“I’m getting paid $75,000 to sit around.”
he live cam showed him surfing the Internet. On the conference room table in the foreground, he’d carefully laid out a small yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag on top of a copy of the teachers union paper. Portelos, who is the elected chapter leader of his school, alleges he landed in his own private rubber room after he ran afoul of administrators.
He says he caught his principal “engaging in financial misconduct.”...
I can see why the guy is not in the classroom, though:
“Francesco Portelos has been extremely difficult to work with, was transferred twice, and there are multiple investigations pending against him.”
Schools officials said they did not know if the special schools investigator was also looking at Hill.
Portelos plans to continue his live stream Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., unless he gets blocked by administrators.
 “I’m very tech-savvy, and for the short five years of my career used that knowledge to educate and improve the school,” Portelos emailed the Daily News.
“Now I have to use my tech savviness to survive.”
It seems that either they should either fire the guy or put him in the classroom.  Sitting in a conference room for 7 hours a day and collecting salary doesn't do anybody any good.

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