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Prober uses Facebook to nail perv, goldbrick NY teachers - New York Post

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Prober uses Facebook to nail perv, goldbrick NY teachers - New York Post
Apr 15th 2012, 08:38

Facebook is giving more Big Apple teachers a black eye.

As the city Department of Education prepares to release it's first-ever social-media policy, Schools Investigator Richard Condon has tallied a rapid growth in complaints about improper Facebook usage by city school employees — 120 in the past 18 months.

Some teachers got in trouble for posting dumb jokes tinged with sex or violence.

Others were busted after their own or students' Facebook comments tipped officials to wrongdoing.

Chancellor Dennis Walcott has hinted the policy will bar teachers from becoming Facebook friends with students on their personal pages.

OVEREXPOSED: Donna Blaine posted a picture of herself in Puerto Rico on Facebook after calling in sick.

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OVEREXPOSED: Donna Blaine posted a picture of herself in Puerto Rico on Facebook after calling in sick.

BIG MOUTH: Derek Sacerdote said on Facebook:

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BIG MOUTH: Derek Sacerdote said on Facebook: "Considered bashing a student's head in this morning."

Meanwhile, Facebook is an occupational hazard. Patricia Dawson, an English teacher at the HS of Economics and Finance in Manhattan, is fighting DOE termination on misconduct charges for jesting 15 months ago on her Facebook page, "I'll bring a gun to school" to get into security-controlled elevators. Several students joined in the banter — one offering to bring a gun to help her.

"No one took it seriously," an insider said.

Colleagues say Dawson should not lose her career over a wisecrack, but her words, which the DOE deems harmful, are carved in cyberspace.

That's what makes Facebook an investigator's friend, Condon noted. "There's no dispute about what was actually said."

The social-network site also can give damning evidence, such as a photo of a teacher who called in sick "drinking a pina colada in San Juan," or others who sent sexually suggestive messages to students.

"Those are the ones that concern us the most," Condon says.

Among his latest findings:

* Jessica Osborne, 31, quit The School for Classics in Brooklyn after a student told a pal on Facebook she made out with the teacher in her car. The student also texted she "had sex with the teacher in every room except the bathroom" at Osborne's house.

* Understanding Sowerby, 40, a ex-teacher at the MS for the Arts in Crown Heights, sent a Facebook friend request to a girl he supervised in detention, then chatted about her breasts.

"BTW U need more den a sports bra 2 hold dem 'twins' down!" he posted, a probe found. He was put in a substitute pool.

* Derek Sacerdote, an Earth science teacher at Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School in Brooklyn, posted this: "Considered bashing a student's head in this morning . . . for the first time in my entire career."

Sacerdote, 37, told probers a student had "made a demeaning remark about my mother." He later vented on Facebook, saying "it was his way of blowing off steam." He was not removed.

* Michael Wolach, 30, still a teacher at the Jill Chaifetz Transfer School in The Bronx, wrote on a student's wall that he had just watched a Penguin game. When the boy asked what sport it was, Wolach posted:

"It's hockey moron. The only sport you know is ball licking. You're a professional."

* Donna Blaine, a teacher at IS 125 in Woodside, regaled Facebook friends about her trip to Puerto Rico last Thanksgiving. She had called in sick before and after the holiday, despite a warning not to play hooky.

The city is still fighting to fire Brooklyn teacher Christine Rubino, who ranted on Facebook about her rowdy students at PS 203 a day after a Harlem girl drowned on a class trip to the beach: "After today, I'm thinking the beach sounds like a wonderful idea for my 5th graders. I HATE THEIR GUTS! They are all the devils spawn!"

A hearing officer agreed to boot her, but a Manhattan judge ruled termination too severe. The city is appealing.

susan.edelman@nypost.com

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