It’s back-to-school time, and that means teachers and students are going to start some more torrid and legally fragile affairs! But most of those affairs are bound to be kept secret — at least until after someone gets in trouble for whistleblowing. At William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens, New York, a gym teacher named Peter Maliarakis was known for giving the school’s administration problems and was repeatedly punished for “incompetence and insubordination,” and was made to sit in a students’ desk in the principal’s office for six hours at a time. Among his complaints was refusing to let his students work out in a filthy, nasty fitness room that a state agency deemed unsafe.
This time around, Maliarakis was given the same punishment for exposing an affair between the current assistant principal Pelagia Papoutsis and a student. But even more scandalous is that the principal of the headline-plagued school, Namita Dwarka, may have known about the affair and covered it up.
In response to being disciplined, Maliarakis started a closed Facebook group called Things You Never Knew About Bryant High School that has grown to more than 12,500 followers. It was through Facebook that a former student of his started sending him messages about an affair that Papoutsis was having — with her. The student, who is not named in the story, says that the affair began when she was a 17-year-old student in Papoutsis’ math class; she was a math teacher before being promoted to assistant principal.
Once they got on the phone, the student provided even more details:
The student also texted Maliarakis that Principal Dwarka was aware of the wrongdoing, but “played along with it” and did nothing.
Maliarakis then spoke by phone to the student, he said.
“She said the relationship occurred during her senior year. She was 17 years old, and it continued after she graduated,” he said.
It should be noted that 17 years old is the age of consent in New York, so this wouldn’t be considered statutory rape on the part of Papoutsis. But there is a probe into the affair — on which Papoutsis won’t comment — and it could cost the newly-promoted assistant principal her job.
Source: BroBible