An allegedly pervy special-ed trainer was booted from a Connecticut classroom after The Submit revealed he had been investigated by the New York Metropolis college system for inappropriate conduct with a pupil.
Daniel Schiels started working for Stamford, Conn. public colleges in August 2021, the identical month New York Metropolis’s Particular Commissioner of Investigation substantiated allegations of him grooming a feminine pupil over three years whereas he taught at a Manhattan college, starting when she was simply 15.
Schiels despatched sexually suggestive Instagram messages to the lady whereas she attended The Maxine Inexperienced Excessive College for Imaginative Inquiry, authorities mentioned. He requested her “how large her boobs have been now” and “Do you will have piercings?” in accordance with SCI, which probes wrongdoing inside the metropolis Division of Training.
The Submit report in Might highlighted the systemic drawback wherein the report of public college lecturers below investigation in New York Metropolis doesn’t comply with them to different college programs, or cities and states the place they take educating jobs.
When Stamford officers discovered of the allegations from the report in The Submit, “Schiels was instantly positioned on administrative depart,” Christopher Soules, chief compliance officer on the district, mentioned in an e mail to a mother or father.
Schiels, who didn’t reply to a request for remark, resigned from Stamford colleges in June, officers informed dad and mom.
Dad and mom at one college the place Schiels labored have been outraged they weren’t knowledgeable in regards to the allegations.
“We’re extraordinarily, extraordinarily uspet about it,” mentioned a mom of a particular wants pupil who was in Schiels’ class in Stamford.
Schiels was nonetheless licensed with the Stamford College District, in accordance with the Connecticut State Division of Training, as of Wednesday. His LinkedIn profile says he’s “open to work.”
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