It's Friday afternoon, and the news is weird:
A Manhattan high-school teacher slept with her student for months and got pregnant with his child — but gave him only a barely passing 65 in social-studies class, according to a bombshell report obtained by The Post. The 18-year-old boy toy from the HS for Health Professions and Human Services shrugged off the grade, but couldn't forgive his teacher, Rhianna Ellis, 25, for reneging on her promise to abort the pregnancy.The details of the sordid 10-month affair — which included romps at a Queens motel and "one last time" in Ellis' Queens home — were chronicled in a recent letter from Special Schools Investigator Richard Condon to Chancellor Joel Klein.
Lord have mercy. I can understand the boy's low score, though; when did he have time to study? What's more, the high school sounds like Peyton Place:
A guidance counselor at a Manhattan high school is in trouble for having an affair with one of her students, officials said yesterday - the second sex scandal to rock the school this week. Samantha Solomon, 29, was booted from the High School for Health Professions and Human Services after school bosses learned she was having sex with a teenage boy, according to the Education Department.
Here's the Inside Schools page on the school in question. Amusingly, the review says that one downside of the place is that "The principal doesn't seem to know the students." To which I can only say, "Boy, all the other school employees sure do."
Posted by kswygert at April 15, 2005 03:23 PM