He dressed like this — and no one said anything?
Brooklyn Tech teacher and alleged sex predator Sean Shaynak attended the school’s senior Masquerade Ball in the fall of 2012 dressed as Britney Spears in her “Hit Me Baby One More Time” Catholic-schoolgirl getup.
He wore pigtails, a wig, falsies, a tied white shirt baring his midriff, and a tiny plaid miniskirt, very low-slung.
A chaperone for the 2009 ball, he was voted “most unique” — dressed as a French maid in a short dress — and reportedly “flashed his rear end.”
“Someone should have told him he was crossing the line,” a colleague said, noting Principal Randy Asher was at the dance.
But no one did, until Shaynak, 44, was busted on Aug. 26 for allegedly sending a 16-year-old student a picture of his penis. On Sept. 30, he was charged in a 36-count indictment with kidnapping, forcible touching and sex abuse against six teen girls between 2011 and 2014.
Shaynak’s inappropriate behavior went unchecked for years.
After joining the prestigious 5,400-student school in February 2009, Shaynak was “protected,” staffers say, because Asher wanted the licensed pilot to lead a prized aerospace program.
“That gave him free rein. They turned a blind eye to his indiscretions,” one said.
Shaynak had just five years’ experience as a substitute in city schools when Asher hired him at Brooklyn Tech.
He quickly became the principal’s pet, staffers said. Asher launched the aerospace program, and the school’s alumni association donated a $ 1,400 computer flight simulator.
Asher once told a faculty meeting that Shaynak was Brooklyn Tech’s “most valuable teacher” because only he could run the program, a staffer recalled.
Meanwhile, Shaynak openly smoked cigarettes outside the school, always surrounded by a bevy of students — mostly girls.
One staffer said he saw Shaynak walking near the school with a tall Russian girl.
“They looked like a couple,” recalled the staffer, who said he didn’t report possible abuse because he figured “nobody could be that stupid.”
Shaynak, who taught math, was also improper in the classroom.
“Can you read or are you f- -king blind?” he asked a boy and screamed at students using the F-word, states a sole letter of reprimand put in his personnel file in June 2012. He admitted losing his temper.
Teachers said students told them Shaynak let kids hide in his room while cutting classes.
“He taught garbage but gave grades in the high 90s, so no one complained,” one said.
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