The Rubber Room " A Dangerous Topic to Discuss "

"A Dangerous a topic to discuss" Tonight THE RUBBER ROOM ~~ we will be speaking to Teachers who spent more than 2 years and more in The Rubber Room. Teachers assigned to a Rubber Room can spend months and often years there. Though they continue to collect their full salaries, they are not asked or allowed to perform work of any kind, instead sitting idle day after day. Psychological Impact and Taboo Rubber Room occupants often report feelings of being deprived of their dignity and sense of self worth. Forced to languish in a state of silent, inactive limbo day after day, they describe being treated like prison inmates in the face of what they feel are baseless charges or complaints. They often recount an almost Kafkaesque set of procedures, whereby they are transferred to a Rubber Room without being told what they are accused of, who their accusers are, or even, in many instances, that they have been accused of anything at all. Once assigned to a Rubber Room, teachers are often shunned by their peers and former school administrators. A general atmosphere of taboo will in many cases follow them for the remainder of their careers, long after they have returned to regular teaching and even, in many cases, after having been fully acquitted of their accusations.