So telling y'all about this bizarre news story I discovered today also means confessing that I spent the afternoon on my couch drinking coffee and watching The Mary Kay LeTourneau Story on the Lifetime Movie Network (sis, are you proud of me?). However, you should also know that I was at Freeman's house babysitting for 17 hours yesterday, so a lazy day was well-earned, I think.
Plus, I finally coaxed myself out of my apartment tonight and had dinner with my dear friend Anna (the most delicious margherita pizza and my new favorite wine--a sparkling rose--at Boot & Shoe Service, a darling little restaurant in the Lake Merritt neighborhood of Oakland). They were even playing great music (The Knife, MGMT, Sufjan Stevens), and it was dark with super chic deco. But I'm getting off on a tangent, and don't even get me started on Oakland, cause what's going on in my poor blessed city is for a whole different post.
All right, back to Ms. LeTourneau, whom I gotta admit has always fascinated me. Is it sick that I've always sort of rooted for her and Vili? And that I'm kind of happy for them that they're still married and have a family together? Hope I don't get fired and/or arrested for saying that. ;) In any case, after I finished the movie (another confession: it wasn't the first time I'd seen it), I did some e-investigating to find out what's going on with everyone's favorite molesteacher these days, when I came across more amazingly funny teacher sex scandal(s):
Check these ladies out:
(excuse the poor picture quality; it's from an old nydailynews)
What do they all have in common?
1. They were all teachers at Brooklyn's James Madison High School, later dubbed by news sources as "Horndog High."
2. They were all caught in sex scandals at school in the same week.
OMG, can you imagine how fun it would have been to be a student at James Madison High that year?? My friends and I would have had a BALL squealing about the following stories:
1. The one on the left is Allison Musacchio. Rumor has it that a female student was snooping through the teacher's phone and found her ex-boyfriend's (another student) phone number in the teacher's phone. When she reported it, officials found over 200 steamy texts & voicemails between Ms. Musacchio and the student.
2. The two on the right are Cindy Mauro and Alini Brito, and their story is even funnier! During a school talent show one evening, a janitor opened the door to one of their classroom's to clean, and found the two teachers naked on the floor together! HAHAHAHA!
But the antics at Horndog High continued . . .
(Lisa Guttilla)
Then, in January, a 14 year old female student came home from volleyball practice one day when her mama noticed a big fat hickey on her neck. Eventually, the student caved and confessed that she received the hickey from her volleyball coach, Lisa Guttilla. My mind can't really get around the fact that not only did this woman have an affair with a teenager, but she left physical evidence. Now that's a cry for help if I ever did see one.
And to top it all off, the very next week, James Madison's assistant principal was accused of sexual harassment and put under investigation. Now, as a disclaimer, I don't think any sort of sexual harassment and/or abuse is funny, of course, but all this at one school in a matter of two weeks? What on earth is in their water fountains??