James Keivom/New York Daily News
Public School 33 assistant principal Leonardo Castro was hit with a $ 6,000 fine for using teaching aides to babysit his kids.
City officials slapped a Bronx assistant principal with a $ 6,000 fine for using the public school where he works as his own private day care for his three kids.
Public School 33 assistant principal Leonardo Castro forced teaching aides who worked for him to baby-sit his three kids at the C-rated school nearly every morning throughout the 2011-12 academic year, according to a deposition made public by the city Conflicts of Interest Board Monday.
Castro, 38, of Patterson, N.J., forced his underlings to supervise his offspring in the school cafeteria and sometimes in classrooms.
The illicit child care situation was prompted by “baby-sitting issues” after Castro’s mother, who often watched the kids, passed away, Castro told investigators.
Castro also sought to solve his child-supervision troubles by putting his daughter in kindergarten classes at P.S. 33 without paying non-resident tuition for the girl, which would be required since he does not reside in the area served by the school.
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He never officially enrolled the girl at his school to avoid raising suspicion, investigators said. The teacher in charge of the class with Castro’s daughter told investigators, “I was uncomfortable, but I was not going to say anything because she was a student, and he was my supervisor.”
The 15-year city educator also signed a bogus lease on a Bronx apartment owned by one of his subordinates to make it look like he lived near the Fordham school and he could enroll the girl in his school legitimately, investigators said.
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The lease was $ 800 for a basement apartment that was supposed to be inhabited by Castro and his daughter, but the two never moved in, investigators said.
A deposition published Monday shows Castro admitted to breaking the rules and agreed to pay the hefty fine to settle the case. He had a clean disciplinary record until now and will keep his $ 104,437 job, Education officials said.
Castro refused to comment on the matter when he was reached on his cell phone by the Daily News Monday afternoon. “Thank you for the call,” said Castro.
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