NEW YORK POST RUBBER ROOM ROUNDUP -- nyc teachers go berserk on the payroll

the "heroes" of dysfunction:
In detention
8 rubber rooms citywide
675 educators in them every day
140 for misconduct
117 for corporal punishment
102 for arrests outside school
45 for incompetence
$40.5M paid to these teachers in last fiscal year
12 years one teacher had been in a rubber room
Not going anywhere for awhile
Notable rubber-room residents:
Alan Rosenfeld: Typing teacher, IS 347, Queens
Salary: $100,049
Got a wrist-slap for lewd comments to teen girls, telling one, "You have a sexy body." In since 2001, he lazes away the days overseeing a $7.8 million real-estate portfolio and a law practice.
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Radharaman Upadhyaya: Guidance counselor, Long Island City HS, Queens
Salary: $102,852
Served a three-day suspension after he was accused of fondling a learning-disabled student at his home. The witness was found not to be credible. He has been twiddling his thumbs in the rubber room since 2003.
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Francisco Olivares: Math teacher, IS 61, Queens
Salary: $94,145
Allegedly impregnated and married a 16-year-old student he met when she was 13. He allegedly molested two 12-year-olds a decade later. In a rubber room since 2003.
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David Pakter: Medical illustrator, HS for Art and Design
Salary: $100,049
Named "Teacher of the Year" by Mayor Rudy Giuliani. In 2006, he was charged with insubordination and sexual misconduct.
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Deborah Mortley: Gym teacher, Life Academy HS for Film & Music, Brooklyn
Salary: $100,049
Allegedly choked and punched a 10th-grader on March 5 for not wearing a required school shirt.