Meaning of rubber room | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cell lined with cushions used for confinement of a mentally disturbed person.
   idiomatic
2. Especially in New York City, a temporary workplace assigned to a teacher who is not permitted to teach in a classroom because he or she is under disciplinary review.
   idiomatic

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Examples

“"If you kept on worrying about being killed you could end⟳ up in a rubber room."”

“Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get⟳ him a one-way ticket to the rubber room.”

“How is it that the Virginia Tech shooter Seung Cho and Adam Lanza weren't in a rubber room instead of in a classroom shooting people?”

“The film briefly visits a “rubber room” in New York City where idle teachers accused of misconduct wait⟳ months and sometimes years for hearings while drawing full salaries.”

“The findings dropped the day before the one-year anniversary of his idling away in the rubber room, where teachers await disciplinary hearings.”

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