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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