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The city’s “rubber room” king has been knocked off his throne.
Disgraced typing teacher Alan Rosenfeld — who collected a $100,000-a-year salary even though he was banned from the classroom for more than a decade — has finally decided to retire from his cushy gig after telling friends he couldn’t take the heat from a series of Post articles about his situation, sources said yesterday.
“He was so upset and angry at the latest round of pictures and articles,” said a source familiar with the case.
Rosenfeld called it quits on Feb. 3, just days after The Post revealed how he was milking taxpayers for big bucks — including how he spent time managing a $6 to $10 million real-estate portfolio while assigned to a rubber room for allegedly ogling eighth-grade girls in 2001.
“He became a poster boy for all the horrible teachers the Board of Ed removed from the classroom,” the source said.
Rosenfeld’s retirement — which sources said was his own decision — doesn’t mean he’s done squeezing the public for every last dime.
The 66-year-old is expected to collect a lifetime pension of $85,400 a year, plus health benefits, according to a source familiar with city teacher pensions.
Rosenfeld’s life on educational easy street began after he was accused in 2001 of leering at six female students at IS 347 in Queens.
The 2003 disciplinary hearing against him was later botched, when the Department of Education failed to produce documentation for several of the witnesses against him.
Because of this he was slapped with a penalty of only one week without pay and cleared to return to teaching. But instead of letting him back into the classroom, Rosenfeld was sent to one of the department’s notorious rubber rooms, where teachers accused of misconduct were forced to sit all day doing nothing while still getting paid.
Rosenfeld, however, made good use of his rubber-room time by managing a huge collection of real-estate holdings around Queens and Long Island. An attorney, he also ran a legal practice, sources said.