A new documentary film focuses on New York City's infamous "rubber rooms" and finds teachers sleeping, doodling and (in at least one case) forming a musical duo. The eight rubber rooms are places where banned teachers await their disciplinary fate -- with full pay. According to an article in the New York Post:
The more motivated among them work on laptops -- sometimes to earn higher-education degrees or to run side businesses, both of which are against the rules.The rooms are depressing. One space is large and windowless, flooded by bright florescent light, jammed with rows of large aging desks, metal folding chairs and debris, including foam cups, newspapers and plastic bags.
The walls bear the same blue-and-white pattern used at Rikers Island.
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