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Bronx teacher accused of forcing child to tell crush he is gay
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Mar 13, 2010 07:42am |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Post |
| News Date | Friday, March 12, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Bronx charter school is under fire from parents who say a teacher bullied kids -- and even forced one child to tell his crush, a girl, that he was gay.
According to court papers filed this week, the teacher, Jared Alessandroni, 29, threatened to "out" a straight 9-year-old boy, James Pastrana, to his class at the South Bronx Charter School for International Cultures and the Arts, unless James told his crush he was gay.
"I was so humiliated," said Pastrana, who reluctantly scribbled the false confession in a note to the girl. "It started to spread around the whole class and then everyone wanted to call me gay."
A second lawsuit alleges that Alessandroni twisted an 8-year-old boy's arm in a school stairwell in 2008 because he didn't like the way the boy was walking.
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