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Teacher at prestigious Manhattan High School, 37, had 'inappropriate relationship' with male student, 17, who she led into a locked bathroom then handed a wad of cash to
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 12, 2024 | Dominic Yeatman

Posted on 02/12/2024 9:54:21 PM PST by Morgana

A high-flying teacher at a Manhattan high school has refused to explain what she was doing in a locked staff bathroom stall with a 17-year-old pupil, or why she later handed him a wad of cash in a stairwell.

Shoshana Leffler, 37, remains licensed to teach after resigning from the High School for Health Careers and Sciences last year rather than face questions over the seven-minute tryst that was partially caught on surveillance video.

But investigators have concluded the Princeton University graduate 'engaged in an inappropriate relationship' with the boy who should have been in class at the time.

'What occurred in the bathroom can only be speculated about since Leffler resigned from the DOE without providing an explanation,' said Anastasia Coleman, the special commissioner of investigation for city schools.

Leffler and her twin brother Abba were child prodigies at the prestigious Bronx High School of Science.

'These are the students who, God willing, will find cures for diseases and will be our political leaders,' then-Bronx Science Principal Valerie Reidy told The Post in 2005.

Shoshana went on to publish academic papers, earning a PhD from New York University with a dissertation on brain cell development.

In 2019 she began work for the city's Department of Education, later taking a job as a chemistry teacher at the high school in Fort George.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: crime; education; manhattan; newyork
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To: 1of10

Seven minutes?

Did they even get past first base?

Actually, I don’t want to know.


21 posted on 02/12/2024 10:47:00 PM PST by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: Morgana

Too many people in Manhattan watching too many Woody Allen pictures ...


22 posted on 02/12/2024 10:55:59 PM PST by x
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To: Nervous Tick

23 posted on 02/12/2024 11:15:30 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Nervous Tick

She must have blinded him with science!


24 posted on 02/13/2024 12:01:39 AM PST by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: Morgana
Shoshana Leffler, 37, remains licensed to teach after resigning from the High School for Health Careers and Sciences last year rather than face questions over the seven-minute tryst that was partially caught on surveillance video.

Maybe they were only "spooning."

Is "spooning" now an actionable offence?

Regards,

25 posted on 02/13/2024 12:44:03 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Nervous Tick

No wonder she had to hand out a wad of cash.


26 posted on 02/13/2024 1:56:17 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "democracy" like trying to throw your opponent in jail.)
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28 posted on 02/13/2024 2:14:17 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Morgana
'engaged in an inappropriate relationship' with the boy who should have been in class at the time.

Where was "Dog, the Bounty Hunter & Hall Monitor?


29 posted on 02/13/2024 2:22:34 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Morgana

“37?”

The picture is from when she was a graduate student. A Ph.D. from MIT and she’s teaching at a high school? There’s more to this story.


30 posted on 02/13/2024 2:22:54 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Student to teacher: You must be kidding. For that I’ll need an A in the course PLUS a wad of cash.


31 posted on 02/13/2024 3:36:45 AM PST by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: GaltAdonis

That’s not her.


32 posted on 02/13/2024 3:38:01 AM PST by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: Nervous Tick
We report, you decide

Throw the book at it.

33 posted on 02/13/2024 3:49:18 AM PST by Living Free in NH
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz


34 posted on 02/13/2024 4:05:05 AM PST by FLvoter
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To: Morgana

Looks like a Jewish Jane Eyre.

The student is 17 years old. She could have waited a few more months and the magic juice could have flown without interruption.

Now her career is finished and won’t have Rochester around.


35 posted on 02/13/2024 4:06:09 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Morgana

The High School for Health Careers and Sciences is not a prestigious Manhattan high School.


36 posted on 02/13/2024 4:12:32 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: Morgana
With all the female on male incidents over the past few years, perhaps we can start moving on from these "women's rights movements"?

It does seem that women now have the upper hand in society. They are getting more education than men by and large and are doing much better than men in the workforce as well. They are simply dominating the men in all corners. Academia, entertainment, business, you name it. Women are doing so well that many men are trying to become them (though the transgender movement).

Women still kick butt in divorce court and child custody cases as well. Isn't it time we stopped thinking of women as victims of a male patriarchy? A patriarchy that simply no longer exists, by the way, in any shape or form.

Perhaps we need to start having "men's rights" movements or at least find a way to protect our fragile boys and men from predatory women in schools and the workplace?

37 posted on 02/13/2024 4:20:38 AM PST by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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38 posted on 02/13/2024 4:22:46 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "democracy" like trying to throw your opponent in jail.)
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To: GaltAdonis

That pic is of the special commissioner for investigation, not the perp. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13074203/nyc-teacher-shoshana-leffler-student-relationship-bathroom.html


39 posted on 02/13/2024 4:23:01 AM PST by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: Morgana

Maybe she discovered 17 year old boys can pass the cure for cancer, but the procedure has to be performed in a school restroom and takes 7 minutes?

When they questiond the boy about why he went into the restroom with her, his response was she had the whitest teeth he ever came across.


40 posted on 02/13/2024 4:43:26 AM PST by shotgun
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