The Education Wars

Another good post from the Teachers.net New York chatboard (typos are from original):

How to be POLITE about the RUBBER ROOM

Should we be polite for the benefit of the people who fund these
prisons that are made for teachers? That would be the taxpayers,
who pay to keep these teachers - many of whom are experienced and
qualified, none who have received due process, to sit in a room and
do nothing. Taxpayers who think they are paying for education, not
to incarcerate our work force. Should we be POLITE and not let them
know they are funding the RUBBER ROOM, NYC’s big dirty secret?

Should we be POLITE to reporters and those people who call
themselves “journalists”, and never bring this atrocity to light as
a major story? Because it’s not politically correct, or heavens,
certainly not POLITE!

Should we be POLITE like the administrators who put them there with
bad evaluations, because they had their own agenda? They have no
problem being very POLITE.

Or should we be POLITE like the unions, who, if they only took a
stand and did what they were supposed to do, by following the
contract and due process of law? Or should we be POLITE. Whimps
are polite.

Klein & Bloomberg must be very POLITE too, because even though they
are the few people powerful enough to effect change, they choose not
too, because they are better at smiling and looking the other way,
and have more lucrative issues to address. The RUBBER ROOM works
for them. They are very POLITE.

Explain how to be “polite”.