Teacher suspended for giving 'self-pleasure' reading to students
By DENISE BUFFA, CAROLYN SALAZAR and LUKAS I. ALPERT
Last Updated: 10:52 AM, November 9, 2009
Posted: 3:40 AM, November 9, 2009
The first rule about having an edgy English teacher is don't talk about your edgy English teacher.
A beloved city schoolteacher has been suspended by the Department of Education after giving his 11th-grade students a copy of a graphic short story about masturbation written by "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk.
Greg Van Voorhis, 30, handed out copies of Palahniuk's "Guts" late last month to about 100 students studying for the English Regents exam at The Bronx School of Law and Finance in Marble Hill.
The story -- written for Playboy magazine -- discusses a teenage boy's use of a carrot in a sex act on himself and autoerotic asphyxiation.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/teacher_suspended_for_giving_self_nV6xCRYzrjDVUIZFbdXD2L#ixzz0WP45pIHyAnyone want to guess what his DU name is?