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Teacher suspended for giving 'self-pleasure' reading to students
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Nov 09, 2009 12:33pm |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Author | DENISE BUFFA, CAROLYN SALAZAR and LUKAS I. ALPERT |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Post |
| News Date | Monday, November 9, 2009 03:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The first rule about having an edgy English teacher is don't talk about your edgy English teacher.
A beloved city schoolteacher has been suspended by the Department of Education after giving his 11th-grade students a copy of a graphic short story about masturbation written by "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk.
Greg Van Voorhis, 30, handed out copies of Palahniuk's "Guts" late last month to about 100 students studying for the English Regents exam at The Bronx School of Law and Finance in Marble Hill.
The story -- written for Playboy magazine -- discusses a teenage boy's use of a carrot in a sex act on himself and autoerotic asphyxiation.
While Van Voorhis took the copies back at the end of class, students blabbed about the ribald tale, and school officials soon caught wind of the lesson in self-love. |
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