Brooklyn assistant principal removed for late-night calls to student
Christian Del Re, assistant principal at Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Brighton Beach, was removed from the classroom after investigators said he exchanged 2,919 text messages with a female student.
The special commissioner of investigation for city schools said Del Re and the 18-year-old student also shared after-midnight phone calls. Del Re, who is married, has denied any wrongdoing. Both Del Re and the student said their relationship never went beyond texting and talking.
Electronic communication between teachers and students has become a hot button topic in the age of social media. Richard J. Condon, the New York City Department of Education’s special commissioner of investigation, noted that in the first months of 2011, there were 69 accusations against teachers and other administrative officials for inappropriate communications that were conducted on social media web sites.