The city wants to get rid of these so-called rubber rooms, where bad teachers continue to earn taxpayer money for years on end (“City: Bounce Rubber Room,” Feb. 24).

The city’s solution is to stop paying these teachers until they are cleared, and then pay them retro. But I am sure that the teachers union will have no part of that, as their members will be deprived of income pending their case’s outcome.

I have a hybrid solution: The city stops paying the teachers; instead, the union pays their salaries during this interim period.

Should they be cleared, the city pays the union back. If the teacher is not cleared, then the union eats the cost, and not as a tax write-off, either. It’s time for the union to put its money where its mouth is — unless for some reason it does not want to show faith in the rubber-room brigade.

Robert T Mruczek, Brooklyn