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05/24/10(Mon)21:39:01 No.231377XXXIn
the "Rubber Room" episode, Lupo and Bernard are assigned to investigate
a rogue Web site run by an anonymous blogger named "Moot," who's
apparently armed to the teeth and threatening to blow a city school to
smithereens.
Most of Moot's rants focus on his former teachers, and
after gaining access to a site in which city teachers gossip about their
jobs, Lupo and Bernard are steered toward a "Temporary Assignment
Center" in Queens.
"Welcome to the rubber room," says a droll
administrator who shows the detectives two separate rooms in which
groups of teachers sit -- one plucking his eyebrows, another lazily
squeezing a hand exerciser -- "seven hours a day, five days a week"
while waiting for their disciplinary cases to be heard.
Lupo and
Bernard then interview several rubber-room teachers who seem to fit the
profile of those targeted on Moot's site -- including a science teacher,
now exiled to Suffolk County, who received a four-month suspension for
allegedly "branding kids with crosses" -- when in fact he merely ran a
coil over their arms during a class lesson on electric energy.
Another
rubber-room teacher tearfully tells the detectives that his 30-year
career was destroyed after he was charged with hitting a student -- when
all he did was swipe at the kid's gelled hair to get him to pay
attention.
"I barely touched him," he sobs.
A third teacher says
he was accused of child molestation after trying to stop a student from
urinating in a classroom trash can.
In typical "Law & Order"
fashion, Lupo and Bernard crack the case -- but you'll have to wait for
the episode to see the bounce they get from their rubber-room
rendezvous.
Read more:
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