School investigators want the city to fire two romantically linked, foul-mouthed teachers – after one of them allegedly subjected her students to profanity-laced tirades and the other spewed ethnic and sexual slurs at his colleagues and a Muslim youngster, The Post has learned.
Music teacher Jennifer Livingston and social studies instructor Steven Centonzo, both of whom teach at Staten Island’s New Dorp HS, engaged in steamy “intimate contact” in classrooms and other areas of the building in front of students and staff, according to a report by Special Schools Investigator Richard Condon.
Then the two teachers interfered with Condon’s probe by contacting students to rally around them, the report said.
Condon said he acted on complaints from students, parents and staffers.
Livingston would spew the “F” word to humiliate students, as in “f – – – ing idiots, morons, retards” and an order for kids to “get the f – – – out of my classroom,” the report charged.
She also called students “pieces of s – – -,” witnesses told investigators.
Livingston once called girls on the dance team a “bunch of sluts” who are “too fat to be dressed in those outfits” and “lowlifes,” investigators said.
Her boyfriend, Centonzo, received a letter of reprimand from Principal Deirde De Angelis for telling a Muslim girl returning from an illness he was “pleased to see that she did not become a suicide bomber,” the report said.
His misconduct “included remarks with sexual overtones and insults toward women, as well as derogatory statements about individuals of Jewish, Italian and Irish heritage,” Condon said. The report alleges he made anti-Muslim remakrs to a Muslim co-worker.
Witnesses told investigators that Livingston and Centonzo were found “playing around and kissing” in class and near lockers as students passed.
“Moreover,” the report said, “Centonzo was touching Livingston on her chest and buttocks.”
The Department of Education has initiated “termination proceedings” for the two tenured teachers.
Both Livingston and Centonzo denied any wrongdoing.
Livingston, 32, a 10-year music instructor, did admit the two are romantically involved.
“I’m being framed,” Livingston said. “It’s not true. That’s not how I talk to students in class.”
Livingston said the two spent time together in school during the lunch period, but “we only held hands while leaving the building . . . I might have given him a kiss on the cheek.”
Centonzo said, “I’m being railroaded. I can’t even walk out of my house without sunglasses on . . . I’ve never done any of these things . . . I love my students.
Centonzo, 42, an 18-year veteran who also coached New Dorp’s junior varsity baseball team, said, “The rest of my life would be terrible if I couldn’t do what I was born to do.”
Condon said the denials from the two teachers are “not credible.” New Dorp students agreed.
“She was a horrible teacher. She would always curse in class. One time she called me a piece of trash,” Nick Akarepis, 17, said of Livingston.
“Sometimes she cursed,” said Regina Mireau, 17. “That’s wrong. That’s why I fought to get her out of school.”