But Department of Education officials said Bronxdale HS Principal John Chase Jr. , who made at least three remarks about oral sex to female staffers, will be disciplined with just a letter of reprimand and sensitivity training.
The decision came after investigators in the DOE’s Office of Equal Opportunity substantiated that Chase had said that a female employee who dropped something off for him “wants to blow me, but I don’t s–t where I eat,” according to a redacted report on the probe.
As The Post reported last month, Chase also alluded to receiving sexual gratification from a full-service copy machine by marveling that “it even has a hole in it where you can stick your d–k in and get a blow job.”
He told another staffer who inquired what a server is, “This part is for storage. This part is for filing. Oh, and this part is where I stick my d–k and get a blow job,” the report said.
In fact the heavy use of the BJ term throughout the report prompted a footnote on page 2 that reads, “A ‘blow job’ is oral sex performed on a man.”
Although Office of Equal Opportunity investigators confirmed that Chase made the orally-fixated statements, they characterized them as inappropriate sexual comments rather than as sexually harassing.
But a source on the Bronxdale campus said the “outrageous” ruling amounted to a slap on the wrist for someone who’s supposed to serve as a role model for teenagers
“You can say whatever you want — now we’re going to send you to sensitivity training? You’ve got to be kidding me,” the source said. “This could only happen in the New York City Department of Education, because if it happened anywhere else that person would have been fired.”
Chase, who earns $132,633, did not respond to an email seeking comment.
He denied the allegations when questioned by investigators, telling them “he never talked about blow jobs in the work place,” the report reads.
He was appointed interim principal at the brand new Bronxdale HS this summer after having worked in Brooklyn as a science teacher since 2006 and as an assistant principal since 2009.