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INSPIRATION: Low-ranked math teacher Dolph Timmerman was the basis for a “Simpsons” character. (
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He’s not only a model for one of the meanest bullies on “The Simpsons,” but he’s arguably one of the worst teachers in New York City.
Dolph Timmerman — who attended high school with “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening and was the inspiration for Dolph, the slouching schoolyard bully who tortures Bart on the animated comedy — was ranked in the bottom 1 percent of all city math teachers and the bottom 12 percent of English teachers in 2010, according to data released yesterday.
DATABASE: PERFORMANCE SCORES FOR NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS (ORGANIZED BY SCHOOL)
Timmerman, an elementary school teacher at PS 123 Suydam in Brooklyn’s Bushwick section, is all too familiar with having his name dragged through the mud.
Six years ago, he was falsely accused of fondling three 10-year-old girls at his school.
At the time, the teacher turned himself in to his principal, but was dramatically hauled away from the school in handcuffs.
Groening, who had known Timmerman as a teen, said when the educator was busted that he never really was a bully, but a “really cool guy.”
The pair only knew each other as teens at Lincoln HS in Portland, Ore.
At his home yesterday, Timmerman, 57, declined to comment about his low teacher ratings, the phony sex-abuse case, and his relationship to “The Simpsons.”
On the show, Dolph’s last name is Starbeam and he’s a stooped over, red-headed schoolyard persecutor who runs with a group of thugs to harass the students at Springfield Elementary School.
At some point during the series’ 23-season run, it was revealed that Dolph is a actually a sixth-grade genius who once attended Hebrew school and can speak Spanish, German, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Latin, Old English, Klingon and Esperanto.