A teacher should be fired because she “aggressively pursued” a sexting relationship with a schools investigator and waited 11 months to complain about him, Special Schools Investigator Richard Condon recommended Tuesday.
In one day during the four-month relationship, Natalya Sokolson Gordon, a computer and fifth-grade teacher at PS 329 in Coney Island, sent 292 text messages to Lawrence Scott, an investigator for the central schools office, while Scott sent her 127 texts, Condon said.
The Post reported in December how Gordon, 44, charged that Scott, 40, tried to have sex with her in exchange for letting her keep her job. Scott was handling two or three cases involving Gordon at the time. His investigation eventually concluded that the undisclosed allegations against her were unsubstantiated.
The texts sent by both Gordon and Scott were sexually explicit Condon said, confirming a Post account.
The probe “revealed that Scott attempted to cool down the relationship for the period when he was closing his investigation of (her), but she aggressively pursued him,” according to Condon’s report.
Gordon’s lawyer, Peter Gleason blasted the report as “smug, sexist and a work of self-protectionism.” He said it “only served to re-victimize the victim.”
Efforts to reach Scott were unsuccessful. He told The Post in December, “She initiated it. I never forced anything on her. There was no quid pro quo.”
Condon’s report said Scott told authorities that Gordon sent him at least two videos that showed her dancing and he sent one video to her. Asked the content of that video, he said, “I can’t recall; maybe I was masturbating.”
The report noted, “Scott ended the relationship when his wife saw a text message sent to him” by Gordon on a weekend.
Gordon said Scott broke off the sexting relationship in February 2013. She reported it 11 months later.
Scott resigned his $65,000-a-year job when confronted with the texts.
In his report to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, Condon recommended that Gordon — who had been assigned to a nonteaching “rubber room” — be fired.
Betsy Combier, a paralegal helping defend the teacher, said Gordon had little choice because of the power Scott held over her.