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New Gross Details on Rubber Room Creep Rosenfeld
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Sabrina Jaszi
Published Feb 9, 2010
Modified Feb 9, 2010
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Today's update on Alan Rosenfeld, the ex-teacher who landed in a Department of Education teacher reassignment center (aka Rubber Room) nearly a decade ago for lewd behavior towards students, features weird and outlandish quotes from some of his victims. We also get more info on how the educator ogled students, some as young a 13, at his school, a neighboring school and from the women's bathroom.
According to a report from 2001, Rosenfeld was caught leering at female students on numerous occasions. "My shoes are down there, not up here," one girl told the teacher when he said he was looking at her footwear. He allegedly told another girl she had "a very sexy body and that [she] should wear a bathing suit to show it off." Very smooth. One more account describes how Rosenfeld went in the girls' bathroom and took away a student's bathroom pass when she caught him in the act. "Why are you looking at [my friend's] butt?" she asked him, according to the Post.
Even with all of that rear-watching on file, the DOE didn't fire him, but sent him to the Rubber Room instead. "The current policy has tied the hands of the Department of Education," said one Bronx lawmaker, Sen. Frank Padavan. In addition to collecting a high salary from the city, Rosenfeld makes hundreds of thousands by operating a law firm from the Rubber Room.
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