Re: NYC teacher, former prodigy took student into bathroom - before handing him wad of cash: probe

On 23 May 2022, Molly Bolt <[email protected]> posted some
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> Another Democrat boy fucker.  Kathy Hochul will get her off.

A former prodigy at the prestigious Bronx High School of Science who went 
on to become a city chemistry teacher resigned last year after she 
“engaged in an inappropriate relationship” with a male student in the 
Manhattan high school where she taught, an investigation found.

Shoshana Leffler, 37, was once a star student at the Bronx High School, 
where she and her twin brother Abba were both among 300 semifinalists in 
the nationwide Intel Science Talent Search.

She attended Princeton and NYU, then landed a teaching job in 2019 with 
the city Department of Education.

But in February 2023, Leffler, then 36, was caught on video taking a 17-
year-old male student into a locked bathroom at the High School for Health 
Careers and Sciences in Manhattan’s Fort George — then later handing the 
teen a wad of cash.

Stas Shvartsman, professor of chemical engineering and genomics (left), 
and Shoshana Leffler, a chemistry major working with scientific equipment.
Chemistry teacher Shoshana Leffler (seen here in 2008) had an 
“inappropriate relationship” with a student, investigators found.
Frank Wojciechowski

“What occurred in the bathroom can only be speculated about since Leffler 
resigned from the DOE without providing an explanation,” Anastasia 
Coleman, the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools, said 
in a report obtained by The Post.

A surveillance camera in the school’s stairwell first picked up Leffler 
and the unnamed student “engaging in conversation” at 10:35 am on a 
Tuesday morning — one minute into the fourth period, when the teen “should 
have been in class,” the SCI report says.

An assistant principal spotted the two and rebuked Leffler for the 
improper tete-a-tete.

But instead of ending the encounter, she took the boy to the building’s 
fifth floor, the report states.

There, they “sought out a private room where security cameras could not 
record them,” investigators concluded — a staff bathroom with a lockable 
door.

Their seven-minute lavatory rendezvous ended when another faculty member 
arrived to use the facilities and found the bathroom locked from the 
inside.

Once the interrupting staffer departed, Leffler and the teen were filmed 
leaving separately.

The next day, Leffler met up with the student in the stairwell again, 
where she was recorded “handing [him] what appeared to be money, him 
pocketing this money, and them leaving the stairwell together,” the report 
says.

Investigators found no evidence of contact between Leffler and the boy in 
the teacher’s phone records.

The student would not testify about the incident.

Leffler quit while the probe was ongoing, and later refused to be 
questioned, leaving the nature of their relationship a mystery.

A “problem code” was attached to Leffler’s DOE file, which could bar her 
from future employment with the city.

The SCI forwarded its report to the New York State Department of Education 
for possible action, but she remains licensed to teach in New York, 
records show. 

Shoshana earned a Ph.D. in medical science from NYU with a dissertation on 
brain-cell development.

Abba is now a top pharma researcher with a string of patents and peer-
reviewed papers to his credit — and both twins still live with their 
parents in the northern Bronx, according to public records.

“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.

Neither Leffler nor her attorney responded to requests for comment.

https://nypost.com/2024/02/10/metro/nyc-teacher-had-inappropriate-
relationship-with-male-student/