They watched porn on work computers, falsified records to pad their pockets, faked doctors’ notes to go on vacations abroad.
And they all worked for New York City schools.
Misconduct accusations against teachers and other Department of Education employees hit a record high of 2,886 last year, according to Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon.
Of 725 cases probed, Condon’s office substantiated 327 the most ever.
The offenders included 173 teachers, up from 140 in 2007.
The DOE wasn’t surprised at the overall hike, saying more employees are blowing the whistle.
“We have emphasized the need to report all instances of misconduct to the special commissioner,” said spokeswoman Ann Forte.
While Condon issued press releases on a dozen reports of bad behavior including test tampering, theft of funds, and sexual contact with students scores of other reports sent to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein were not made public.
A Post review of those cases, obtained under a Freedom of Information request, found a wide range of wrongdoing.
* Christopher Asch, the librarian and adviser to the Quiz Club at Stuyvesant HS, took seven students on an unauthorized trip to a Quiz Bowl at Harvard University.
Asch took one student whose father had personally called Asch to tell him his child could not go, the report says.
Asch also put the kids on a bus back to New York, but did not join them, leaving them without a chaperone and infuriating the parents.
The DOE yanked him from the school.
* Nicole Madlin, a teacher at the Community School for Social Justice in The Bronx, claimed an absence on Feb. 25, 2008, for jury duty. But Madlin appeared in court on criminal charges of driving with a suspended license after her car hit a pedestrian.
* Sandra Carpenter, a teacher at the HS for Health Professions and Human Services in Manhattan, was denied permission to attend the Berlin Film Festival in February 2008.
So she called in sick for eight school days.
When she got home, she told a doctor she had been ill and asked him to write her an excuse. But after Condon’s office subpoenaed airline records confirming her trip, Carpenter admitted she went to Germany.
* Substitute teacher Ohene Cornelius showed a sixth-grade drama class at the Tito Puente Education Complex in Manhattan a film called “I Want You” in January 2008. It featured Cornelius, stripped down to this boxer shorts, in bed with an actress wearing a bra and panties, a student told investigators.
The film contained “groaning sounds,” the student said, adding that she left the classroom and told a staff member.
Cornelius acknowledged he kissed his co-star, but insisted the film “depicted emotions,” not sex, Condon’s report said. He got the boot.