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SEX AND THE CITY SCHOOLS
By Mark Thompson
markthomp@yahoo.com
Posted 06-04-08

New York County Justice Marilyn Shafer is considerably more tolerant of teachers who engage in sexually explicit banter with their students than four judges on the Appellate Division, who recently reviewed – and reversed – her decision in a disciplinary proceeding.

School officials launched an investigation of the teacher, Douglas Lackow, after a female student reported to an assistant principal that when she yelled out "Lackow sucks," the quick-witted teacher fired back, "No, you suck. Well, that's what it says in the boys' bathroom." The ensuing probe turned up 15 other questionable verbal exchanges between Lackow and his students. A hearing officer ultimately found that nine of them constituted “conduct unbecoming a teacher,” and concluded that Lackow deserved to be fired.

Full post as published by Judicial Reports on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).