Jeff Kaufman on ATR Wrinkle

From JW's Email listserve:

The ATR pool, with the so-called hiring freeze, is actually being used to fill hard to staff schools. As my old school closes the excessed teachers are being transferred to schools that could not attract open market applicants and still have vacancies. The ATRs will be given full schedules and look like they are appointed but the principal still has the ability to have the teacher reassigned without resorting to 3020a charges. When the principal finds an ATR that he/she likes they can appoint. Until that time the ATR remains on the original schools table of organization and is paid by central.

Jeff

My naive, really facetious, question is:
With some class sizes being large, why not make use of the ATRs to.....never mind!

Too logical, but more important, using them in a rational way would undercut the political nature of the closing schools/ATR creation issue that BloomKlein use to create a public call for the firing of these people after one year.

Related:
NY Post's Susan Edelman's decent story in ATRs