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.
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How much was the wad of cash? Asking for a friend.
Sorry to learn of this. Sounds like someone made some poor life choices.
Someone that is 17 is not a ‘boy’. The appropriate appellation should be ‘a male student that has not quite reached the age of full adulthood’, not *boy*.
Poor writing. You decide if it is intentional.
That’s not her.
Yes, very sad.
May have been more about drugs than sex.
back in 2008 at least...
I seen Laz hit a lot worse
“The appropriate appellation should be ‘a male student that has not quite reached the age of full adulthood’, not *boy*.”
An adolescent male.
WOW! Even Laz, back in his outrageous yute days, wouldn't hit it.
That is one ugly woman.
Poor kid...that’s one ugly 37 year old.
Laz is my hero and he would never touch that skank. Axe him.
I’d hit it.
For the wad of cash.
I guess that would work.
Meh....
High School for Health Careers and Sciences
She was just tutoring him in anatomy & physiology (A&P).
Maybe she saw it as a tax deduction for;
“Costs incurred from miscellaneous, ongoing research projects and Teacher expenses.”
That photo has her looking like Halston.
Halston Dare is a bi-racial, bi-
what-not’ singer from Texas.
Shoshana ?????
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