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A luxury prom aboard a yacht turned into a drunken bash for teachers from a Brooklyn, N.Y., high school, and one chaperone was bounced from the classroom after allegedly making out with a student.
A group of students from International High School at Lafayette enjoyed a three-hour cruise around Manhattan last June, and bartenders opened the bar for the grown-ups tasked with preventing the teens from engaging in forbidden shenanigans. Instead, the New York Post reports, the adults enjoyed themselves a little too much and 25-year-old chemistry teacher Lindsay Dunaj was caught locking lips with a student on the dance floor.
The kiss was broadcast to revelers below the upper deck dance floor on a large-screen TV located on the lower level of the yacht -- appropriately named "Fantasy." Stunned classmates, teachers and even school principal Michael Soet watched the action.
"They were making out," an unnamed student tells the Post.
Dunaj was pulled from the classroom in December 2009 after special schools investigator Richard Condon also discovered that, on top of the prom incident, a second student is claiming to have had a romantic relationship with the science teacher.
The entire booze cruise is under investigation by the city's Department of Education, the Post reports. Alcoholic drinks are strictly forbidden at school-sponsored events or trips attended by minors. According to students, kids were not able to sweet talk the bartenders into serving them cocktails, but they did sneak sips from their teachers.
Principal Soet refused to comment on the prom gone awry, but his staff members were quick to pin the blame on their supervisor.
"How can you trust the judgment of a principal who would throw an alcohol bash at a senior prom?" an unnamed teacher tells the Post.
International High School at Layfayette serves 300 New York City students who are all recent immigrants to the United States. This was the school's first prom -- we can't wait to see what they come up with this year.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 3)
2-02-2010 @ 7:28AM
LS said...I would fire every last one of the teachers on that boat who had an ounce of alcohol in their system - assuming that there were alcohol tests done on them.
They're trying to push blame off on the principal:
"Principal Soet refused to comment on the prom gone awry, but his staff members were quick to pin the blame on their supervisor.
"How can you trust the judgment of a principal who would throw an alcohol bash at a senior prom?" an unnamed teacher tells the Post."
Isn't this the exact same scenario that teachers are forever posing to their students? "just because someone offers you alcohol/drugs doesn't mean you have to take it"?
And now that they've taken the drinks and gotten caught at it, they're pushing the blame off on their boss. Nobody put a gun to a single teacher's head and said, "drink or die".
Personal responsibility... they ALL need firing.
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2-03-2010 @ 10:14AM
Kelly said...Sadly, the "media" will forget all about this. The NEA will protect these imbeciles from accountability.
Wait! In NY there is a big room for these people to hang out AND get paid.
Gotta Love it
2-03-2010 @ 1:14PM
blccoa said...The top guy in every school or corporation is responsible for everyone behavior. The principal should be fired and the boat company be investigated and sued. But from my experience the person with the clout usually gets a slap on the wrist.
2-03-2010 @ 7:08PM
MikoRose said...It's not just about the booze. What about the teacher making out with the student? WTF is wrong with these adults. They need to realize they are ADULTS not TEENAGERS ANYMORE!!!! Sad pathetic people trying to hard.
2-02-2010 @ 9:15AM
Ange2000 said...I think it's hilarious that a teacher was blaming the principal for the incident. Yeah, it was absolutely wrong to have had an open bar available, but no one was pouring drinks down anyone's throats. People need to take responsibility for the things they do and stop blaming others. They were all wrong.
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2-03-2010 @ 7:15AM
Ray said...CAREFUL PEOPLE! THE VIRUS BANDITS ARE OUT THIS MORNING WITH THEIR INFECTED WEBSITES! DO NOT ENTER THEM! THEY ARE SPYWARE AND VIRUS INFECTED!!!
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2-03-2010 @ 7:17AM
RAY said...CAREFULE PEOPLE! THE VIRUS BANDITS ARE OUT THIS MORNING WITH THE VIRUS AND SPYWARE WEBSTES! DO NOT ENTER THEM! DELETE ANYTHING THEY SEND YOU! THEIR LONELY FIND A MATE, SALES ETC ARE A SCAM AND VIRUS INFECTED! IGNOR THEM!
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2-03-2010 @ 7:34AM
tony said...Teachers are lowclass, lazy worthless whores that prey on youth and expect the world to give them everything. Slime.
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2-16-2010 @ 5:22PM
juni said...Tony,
Your an idiot. Only a fool would make a statement like that. When did you drop out of school?
2-03-2010 @ 9:59AM
Sam said...tony: You must have an IQ somewhere between that of a fence post and a prairie chicken, or you got thrown out of 9th grade for trying to BuFu the school custodian (or maybe just his floor mop).
My mother, sister, and sister-in-law are all retired teachers. They were and are upstanding members of their separate communities and all of them contribute their time and efforts to social charities and community functions.
Send me your home address and I will be happy to provide you with a life lesson that may change your attitude about teachers.
2-03-2010 @ 12:14PM
Sue said...You are an idiot..Most teachers are hard working and under paid. These teachers deserve to be fired. What is wrong with people who don't understand simply common sense...
2-03-2010 @ 10:08AM
drelo said...Apparently Tony you had a bad experience with a teacher and you need to talk to a therapist about your issues. Not ALL teachers are as bad as this group, just like I know not all Tony's are as ignorent as yourself. These teacher's had a very bad lapse in judgement and for that they will have to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives. Also a very important lesson for those students to learn....not even teacher's are perfect and they too have to pay the consequences when they are wrong. maybe Tony you never learned that growing up and people in glass houses....well you know the rest.
2-03-2010 @ 7:39AM
james claypool said...DRUNKS WATCHING KIDS THATS A GREAT ONE
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2-03-2010 @ 9:29AM
slap tony said...u r discusting tony i wonder if you continue to register as a sex offender as required by law
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2-03-2010 @ 9:35AM
Angel said...Tony are you serious? There are some teachers, who take their jobs very serious. You're an idiot, with nothing better to say on a very serious subject.
I think that even if the alcohol was offered, as a teacher you should know that it is not acceptable behavior to drink at a school function with students present. As for the principal, placing the blame on him is ridiculous. Be an adult an say you messed up.
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2-03-2010 @ 9:40AM
liza-jane said...The principal is just as much to blame! He was on the ship where
the alc. was and should of told the bart. tht no alc. ws to be present! He is the pot calling the kettle "Black"
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2-03-2010 @ 9:43AM
Angiebaby said...Every teacher proven to be drinking alcohol at the HS Prom should be fired immediately. As for blaming the supervisor? Was the principal present at the Prom? If so, adios to him, too. If he wasn't there, and the teachers took it upon themselves to drink and carry on, so to speak, then he should not be held accountable for their actions, but directly involved in taking measures to make sure these booze hounds and floozies are not permitted in the classrooms again.
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2-03-2010 @ 10:35AM
Ron Shinn said...According to the article the principle WAS on the yacht ... watching the kiss on a big screen TV on a lower deck. My question is ... If this was a school function why did the contract not stipulate that alcohol was not to be served? The alcohol should have been locked up and no bartender on the ship. If there was such a clause in the contract then the company or individual that the yacht was contracted from was also at fault.
2-03-2010 @ 9:56AM
John C. Billingsley, Jr. said...Where were teachers like these when I was a Teenager?
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2-03-2010 @ 1:23PM
Bill T. said...I was thinking the exact same thing....in fact i had a couple of teachers in mind...but that was 20 yrs ago