Teachers Fired for Facebook Flirting with Students

Today the Post has an exclusive report on three teachers who've been fired for allegedly inappropriate contact with students on Facebook. Although some states such as New Hampshire and Ohio have implemented rules barring teachers from having any contact with students on social networking sites like Facebook, there are no such prohibitions in New York. And that's great for teachers like the one at La Guardia HS who gave extra credit to students who "friended" him on Facebook. (The teacher wasn't disciplined.) But some educators have reportedly been abusing their Facebook privileges! Here are a few of the worst offenders:

Substitute teacher Stephen D'Andrilli has been barred from subbing after he got caught sending inappropriate messages on Facebook to several female students at Essex Street Academy, investigators tell the Post. He allegedly told one girl her "boyfriend [did not] deserve a beautiful girl like you." But D'Andrilli has a wandering eye, and allegedly told another girl she was pretty and that he'd tried to see her during one of her Saturday classes.
Bronx high school teacher Chadwin Reynolds is said to have "friended" about a half-dozen female students and wrote comments like, "This is sexy," under some of their Facebook photos. He also allegedly tried to woo another student by sending her flowers, candy and a teddy bear. According to investigators, his Facebook tagline was "I'm not a gynecologist, but I'll take a look inside." He was fired earlier this year.
And after Bryant HS paraprofessional Laurie Hirsch, 30, posted a photo of her kissing an 18-year-old male former student, the DOE launched an investigation and found that the teen had sex with Hirsch about 10 times in her apartment last year. Over a six-month period, they had 2,700 phone contacts, according to records. Sources tell the Post he was fired in May because of the affair, even though neither she nor the student had been attending school any longer when it began—Hirsch says she was already suspended for using her cellphone too much during school time.

So there you have it: Our teachers are acting as irresponsibly as teenagers on the Internet! We're so screwed.

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By John Del Signore in News on October 18, 2010 9:57 AM

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airtech1

Polanski just found his 2nd calling, in case that filmmaking thing doesn't work out.

bitesizeliz

The last one doesn't make sense even if he was 17 when this occurred. Age of consent in NY is 17 not 18 anyways.

Stevennnn

The 18 year one loved every second of having sex with a 30 year old woman.

jrrrrz

Everyone knows that teacher's are nutjobs, right?

jqb

Neither that nor anything else you have to say is right, jrrrrz, you pig-ignorant illiterate.

handsomedevil

OMG LOL they all r mad about dumb shit like how 2 use a apostrophe n shit

resa

I don't get the last one at all. He was 18, officially a consenting adult, she was his former teacher. Lame.

schadenfreudian mensch

Do the math, he wasn't 18 last year when all this started.

"the DOE launched an investigation and found that the teen had sex with Hirsch about 10 times in her apartment last year."

Dogsbody

"do the math..."

Just because he's 18 NOW doesn't mean that he was 17 when the affair started "last year". For all we know, his birthday could be in November. The phrase "last year" could mean that the affair started last December, when the guy/kid was already 18.

Besides, if the age of consent is 17, what difference should it make?

Rocknrope

You teachers love the internet so much? Congrats, you're on it for posterity. Good luck finding a career.

Kojak

"...Sources tell the Post says was fired in May because of the affair, even though neither she nor the student had been attending school any longer when the affair began"

So you can't fuck former students? Lame.

thefacts

Gee, if that policy were in effect at the Modern School, Will Durant might not ever have married his 15-year old student, Ariel, and we might never have had "The History of Civilization". (The went on to win the Pulitzer.)

Kojak

Exactly. We are hindering cultural progress by preventing former students from boinking their old teachers. Where's the humanity??

In any case, this happens FAR more than what's reported on the news. Most teachers/students are smart enough to avoid using these types of channels to air their scandalous ways.

thefacts

"this happens FAR more than what's reported on the news."

Exactly!

I had two different girlfriends who were explicitly and blatantly hit on by their college professors - soon after they graduated, however, not while in school.

One politely spurned his overtures, the other one went for it. The only thing that upset me about it was the we were dating! (In defense, I was out of town that summer LOL).