More Government Waste

This is a fun little fact about the efficiency of government education. In New York City alone, 700 teachers are literally paid to do nothing:

Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.

Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its "rubber rooms" — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings.

I bet taxpayers in NYC are just thrilled. This is yet another example of what labor unions and progressivism has done to this country. As with many other areas of life, the masses of people would be much better off if we had a separation of education and State. Freedom of choice and competition would rid the system of incompetent teachers. Costs would be dramatically reduced as wasteful schools would go bankrupt and quality would certainly improve (it cannot get much worse).