As many Americans face increasingly tight financial times--and some even unemployment--I found this story by Yoav Gonen, New York Post, to be EXTREMELY interesting. Crazy, to be perfectly honest.
Apparently a group of public-school principals are earning six-figure salaries to oversee rooms of teachers who are awaiting disciplinary hearings on charges ranging from habitual lateness to striking a student. Hmm...That essentially amounts to keeping watch on the detention room!!! One teacher quoted in the article summed it up well:
"I wish I had that job," said a teacher recently released from a Manhattan room. "[They're] basically earning a principal's salary for doing nothing."