These texts don’t lie.
A Hell’s Kitchen high-school teacher who insisted he never contacted a student he was suspected of having an inappropriate relationship with actually exchanged nearly 3,000 text messages with the girl, city investigators found.
The duplicity over his intimacy with a teen, who was a junior, led education officials to boot popular science teacher Chris Stammel, 29, from The Facing History School.
An investigation was launched last fall after a student reported the girl told her she was “involved” with Stammel, says a report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation.
Other students heard the girl talk of her desire to do naughty things with Stammel after she revealed she was dating a man in his 20s.
Classmates also overheard her talking about sleeping over at her boyfriend’s house, although she didn’t give his identity.
After Stammel and the girl both told investigators they had never talked by phone or texted, probers dug up phone records from last year showing they swapped nearly 2,000 texts between May 1 and Sept. 1.
Over three months, the two went only four days without phone contact — and only 14 days with fewer than 20 text exchanges.
The messages included 11 photos they sent last July.
The pair exchanged nearly 1,000 more texts through mid-November 2011, around the time they learned investigators were on their trail.
Brought in for questioning a second time, Stammel admitted texting the girl but said it was mostly because he was helping her deal with an ex-boyfriend.
He said he gave her advice on dealing with her parents and answered questions about school. The girl seconded his explanation.
Stammel claimed he initially hid the truth because he “thought he would be in trouble” for not referring the girl to a guidance counselor, the report said.
After Stammel learned of the investigation, he told the girl to stop reaching out.
A message left at a number listed for the former NYC Teaching Fellow, who has moved on to work in real estate, wasn’t returned.
Students at the school said that Stammel disappeared earlier this year but that the girl stayed on to graduate in June.
They said when they approached administrators, they were told Stammel had gone to work at a different school.
Principal Dana Panagot did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
Last week, the Department of Education said it was seeking to fire a married assistant principal at Leon Goldstein HS in Brooklyn over a 3,000-text-message flurry with an 18-year-old girl.