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Horace Mann-Sense: Li'l Roy Cohn Sad, Former School Head's Spitzer Connection

Little public figure Charles Stam was the villain of New York Magazine's cover story on the terrible nonsense that goes on at tony prep school Horace Mann. Stam harassed a teacher for being a liberal feminist, and even lied about having a tape of her calling him a Nazi in an attempt to get her fired. He was promptly elected student body president! We posted a small picture of him from the Horace Mann yearbook earlier this week, and that made Stam sad. He emailed Gawker boss Nick Denton to ask that we remove his "personal material" from the site. Instead, we will reprint his email. It's after the jump, along with the sad tale of school head Thomas Kelly's toxic waste playground for the poor kids, and why it's all Eliot Spitzer's fault. More »

3:07 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Pareene
8,236 views, 72 comments

Latest by Phamos: I don't understand why these little shits don't seem to comprehend that NOTHING ON THE INTERNET IS ACTUALLY PRIVATE. more »

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Meet the Horace Mann Scandal Crew!

So you read the New York cover story about the mess at high-falutin' private prep school Horace Mann, but maybe you wanted more. Maybe you wanted to meet the faces behind the names. You are in luck, kind reader. With help from SECRET GAWKER SOURCES we found photos and bios for two of the anonymous rich assholes who gave the story its depressing color—the wealthy trustee mom whose daughter inadvertently engineered the whole scandal, and "Jeffrey Robbins," the Young Republican anti-Max Fischer who rose from liberal-baiting history class gadfly to misogynist class president. After the jump, meet the leaders of tomorrow! More »

3:40 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Pareene
11,497 views, 70 comments

Latest by n/a: Arrrgh -- I had a run in with the wealthy future heiress of the local bean cannery whose daughters got with her to help have my kid expelled from a lightweight private school near Buffalo, NY. I have gleefully savaged more »

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Another Horace Mann Teacher To Dish The Dirt

We hear that New York magazine writer Alex Morris is working on a story about the Horace Mann brouhaha—teacher Andrew Trees got fired after his novel Academy X came out, headmaster Tom Kelly censored the school paper when it wanted to write an article about it, a bunch of fancy academics got all hot and bothered and sent Kelly a letter and petition, and so far Trees hasn't been reinstated. Whew! But some in the school community are wondering why headmaster Kelly isn't taking as hard a line with another teacher who's written a suspiciously similar book—which was just bought by The N, Viacom's tween channel, for a pilot. It's about a high school teacher who sleeps with the parent of one of the kids he tutors! More »

12:01 PM on Fri Jun 22 2007
By Doree Shafrir
4,550 views, 15 comments

Latest by lovely nigerienne: @VenusCloacina: My thoughts exactly. Teacher gets extra money and book deal. Mother gets sex with young teacher of kid. Kid gets an A and ends up at Harvard or Yale, though he can't tell Lincoln from FDR. more »