Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School Class of 1992 part 1 of 2

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HOW OTHER STATES DEAL WITH BASKETBALL COACHES WHO SEDUCE UNDERAGE WARDS: (HINT-They don't announce the birth of the children they father in the newsletter)

Former high school hoops coach pleads guilty to having sex with students; fathered child with one could get more than 20 years in prison.

Omar Curry, 32, who also taught social studies at Belleview High School in northern Florida, was arrested in 2009 after he was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl in a school locker room.

[burmeseday00]

I Love L.A.

01/10/2011 7:54 AM

No mention of criminal charges against this coach? I guess the authorities just figure this is typical behavior in that part of the country. What a hell-hole NYC must be, like a zoo with no fences or cages, filled with absolutely filthy, disgusting animals. I hope this student can do well in school and move as far away from NYC as possible and live a happy life in a nicer place after he graduates. God bless him and his family.

[burmeseday00]

When Mallette's turn came, Russell pegged him in his right eye, fracturing his eye socket and cheekbone, crushing his sinus cavity and leaving him with his right eye drooping and no feeling in 12 of his teeth, the teen said.

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Assistant coach Dharyl Russell was intent on "terrorizing" Christopher Mallette, then 17, "beyond all reasonable bounds of decency," the suit says.

In March, Russell was running a session inside the school's gym teaching the players to catch a fading line drive, Mallette said.

[burmeseday00]

HS baseball suit

Coach maimed teen's face: mom

By WILLIAM J. GORTA

Posted: 2:41 AM, January 10, 2011

A coach at Brooklyn's Bishop Ford HS intentionally fired a baseball at a player's head, mangling the teen's face and turning him off the game for life, a new lawsuit alleges.

Worse, the teen's mom said, the coach allegedly told him to "suck it up" and then sent the player home in a taxi despite massive injuries that required surgery to insert three metal plates in his face.

[SuperPhoenix3000]

i wasnt even born then

[msspecialone]

People still complain about Pisselli now. I had him senior year like 2 years ago. Other than his " you guys won't make it in college so you should just drop out and work at McDonald's" speech, he wasn't that bad to me.

[burmeseday00]

Bishop Ford HS coach Ray Nash dragged into ugly legal battle involving loan to son, Peter J. Nash
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Saturday, April 24th 2010, 9:20 PM

Nash conspired with his father to take more than $50,000 from the Bishop Ford development fund in March 2007 to stop a bank from foreclosing on Peter's Cooperstown home.

"This is a violation of all the people who contributed money to Bishop Ford's development fund, and it could violate the school's tax-exempt status,"

[burmeseday00]

HOW OTHER SCHOOLS TREAT TEACHERS WHO SLEEP WITH THEIR STUDENTS,

Ex-teacher sentenced on student sex charge

Shepherd

A former teacher and coach at Monroe High School will have to wear an electronic monitoring device for at least 10 years, after pleading guilty to sexual offenses with a student, Union County authorities said Tuesday.

Ollie Van Shepherd Jr., 32, of Wingate, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of sexual act with a student and one count of indecent liberties with a student.

[burmeseday00]

Hard luck lives here

by Amy Pagnozzi

NY Daily News

You look for the sign that something's wrong in the home.

Nothing.

Anne Mancusi's house in Bensonhurst is clean and well -tended. The cupboards are full. The bill box is empty. The grandchildren Danielle and Michael play in the above-ground pool urn her tiny backyard.

Still. you figure something must be wrong somewhere to explain the last few years.

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1992: Mancusi's son Steven. found dead in a car trunk at Avenue O and W Seventh St.

1993: Daughter Diana. a drug addict, fatally shot by an off-duty cop, who has been charged with murder.

1994: Son John. convicted of burglary, lingering with AIDS in an upstate prison.

Mancusi herself still looks for a reason. Wonders whether she should have worked part-time. "But my kids always stayed with my mother, I didn't go to Aruba or buy furs, everything I worked for is here in this house.

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"They were all taken care of," she says. "They went to school. They all got good grades. I have their report cards from St. Athanasius and BISHOP FORD.

"Still. when I get up in the morning I ask myself. 'God, what have I done wrong?'"

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There were a handful of teachers at Ford who I still look back fondly on--Mr. Simonetti (RIP), Ms. Curtin, Dr. Stephen.. But they were by far the exceptions. As for the rest of the "faculty," they were only marginally less retarded than the student body. The whole place is basically a diploma mill for the future plumbers, private sanitation workers and janitors of tomorrow (nothing against those professions, but you catch my drift). It truly amazes me that I was able to recoup from there.

[burmeseday00]

Simonetti died huh? The last day of school he actually called me over to tell me that I had never belonged in that school and knew that I would do well in college.

Simonetti, Mr Chisano, Dr. Dafina, Mrs. Cavanagh, and a handful of others were good people but their task was hopeless.

As for future plumbers, that would take skill, even a janitor has to have a bit of skill..... I am guessing more along the lines of TWU Workers and SEIU members, thugs who perform no useful work while extorting.

[smackitupNflipit]

I know a family who had four children. One went to Murrow, and the other three went to Bishop Ford. Three turned out dysfunctional; only one turned out alright--care to guess who?

Luckily for me, the military was able to straighten me out. Otherwise who knows where the hell I'd be. Probably a coked-out ex-con like so many of my former classmates.

[burmeseday00]

There was a story by Amy Pagnozzi in the NY Daily News around 1993 titled: Hard Luck Lives Here. The story was about a woman who had three kids, one was found murdered in the trunk of a car, one had AIDS and the last was serving a long prison sentence. The mother couldn't understand it, they all got "good grades in Bishop Ford".

I saved that article and put it at the back of the 1992 yearbook I uploaded to Scribd

[burmeseday00]

"so meny white people"

I'll be sure to send a donation to the alumni association. The place was a toilet 20 years ago, what the hell is it now? Open Sewer?

[burmeseday00]

Have anymore teachers like Piselli knocked up anymore students? Every time I run into people from Brooklyn they all know about Piselli having an affair with his 16-year-old student.. Tell the Alumni association that it was a great idea announcing putting the birth of Piselli's kid with his former student in the newsletter!

[dwizill]

so meny white people not any more lol

[7777c]

dang thats mr villa i had him last year.

[smackitupNflipit]

To think, our parents paid a fair amount of money for the 'privilege' of us receiving this 'education.'

[burmeseday00]

dwizill has made a comment on Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School Class of 1992 part 1 of 2:

so meny white people not any more lol

Not that I have any love for my high school alma mater... but... having a current illiterate inmate of the institution my parents sent me to contact me regarding an 18-year-old video I posted on youtube to tell me that there were so "meny white people".

[smackitupNflipit]

Yeah man, the crème de la crème. I would love to know how many Bishop Ford grads have gone on to Ivy League colleges in the history of the high school.. less than .002 percent, I'm guessing?

And to think, I could've easily gotten into Stuyvesant, but my boneheaded blue collar parents thought that "public school = bad." So I had the 'privilege' of being sent to Ford. Luckily I was still able to catch up to the Ivy kids later, but not without shaking the huge BF shackle off my ankles first.

[burmeseday00]

Sigh... my parents thought Catholic School = good too. I began to realize how bad it was my first week there when I was pulled into a senior class by a teacher because not one senior knew who Charles Lindbergh was... "He flew a plane" I replied sheepishly, desperate to get out of the classroom and not to "show up" a senior...

When we took the SATs I had teachers coming up to me to tell me I had scored higher than them... I was ashamed that I didn't break 1100...

[burmeseday00]

Ivy League? Ha.. more like jailhouse league.

It took me a year in college just to realize what a terrible disadvantage that school put me in. Imagine my surprise when I was expected to write long essays defending positions when our teachers would give As if you were close to the right answer.

Ehh. but what good is education in this country now? I know one of the illiterati I was friends with who scored a 750 on his SAT, was a thief and a snake works for Chase for the last 10 years.....

[burmeseday00]

I have been involved in Venture Capital and Finance for 13 years and couldn't even get an interview with them... I guess I scored too well on my SAT and had some integrity. ...

Are you asked by people who know that school about the teacher that married a student too? I cannot believe how everyone knows about Pisselli having an affair with his student.... Another good advertisement in addition to the "so meny white people"

[smackitupNflipit]

I'm now a corporate attorney. I went into Bishop Ford having scored in the top percentile of every standardized test I ever took. By the time I 'graduated,' I had spent three summers in summer school and carried a C average. All motivation and ambition had been drained from me.

I remember a Spanish teacher at Ford refusing to recommend me for Honors Spanish. Nowadays I read and write Spanish and Japanese fluently. But apparently I wasn't good enough to sit next to Joey Boombotz at Ford.

[burmeseday00]

Jesus, I thought I was the only one to suffer the Ford dementia. I was in the 98th percentile on the standardized tests prior to coming to that place and that was while I was getting kicked out of two middle schools for being a pain in the ass.

I had a Time Magazine subscription since I was nine, was reading Scientific American since I was six... in Junior year we were doing Phonics... PHONICS.

I will always have a special hatred for Piselli, I was in his Pre Calculus class senior year..

[burmeseday00]

My mother was dying of Cancer, by Christmas it had become hopeless and I began missing classes because of it. If you miss a single class of pre-calculus you are lost, try a month.

I used to beg that pedophile for help when I was in school. Every time he would tell me to come up to the teachers lounge and he never showed. He did manage to find time to hit on every 16 year old girl in a tight skirt though.

After, burying my mother in March, that bastard even sent me to summer school.

[smackitupNflipit]

I had Piselli for math as well at some point during my four-year black hole journey at Ford (I've since flushed my memory). Pretty sure I went to summer school for him too. And yes, I had heard about the student affair thing too. Disgusting, to say the least. Any school with a modicum of decency would've fired him so fast his head would've spun. But not Bishop Ford.

[burmeseday00]

I knew that girl since third grade. Had she been my daughter, Mr. Blackbelt tough guy would have been filling a shallow hole out in the weeds somewhere. Ford puts it out in the Alumni Newsletter announcements that he had a kid with his student!??? Is it me??

He made me hate math, made me avoid it in college and feel sick every time I see anything related to advanced math. Kind of put a dent in my having a career in science and medicine as I wanted... How many other dreams did he ruin?

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It's not you. He's a mental midget, like 98% of the other Ford faculty was (and undoubtedly still is). Thanks to Ford, I also grew to hate math with a passion. Years later, at Hunter College, I got an "A" in every math and logic class I took, and came to love it, thanks to wonderful and inspiring professors. Nowadays, I work through logic textbooks in my spare time. But again, apparently Bishop Ford saw less in me than even I saw in myself at the time. What can I ever do to repay them?

[burmeseday00]

HS baseball suit Coach maimed teen's face: mom By WILLIAM J. GORTA Last Updated: 6:46 AM, January 10, 2011 Posted: 2:41 AM, January 10, 2011 Comments: 0 More Print EXCLUSIVE A coach at Brooklyn's Bishop Ford HS intentionally fired a baseball at a player's head, mangling the teen's face fracturing his eye socket and cheekbone, crushing his sinus cavity and leaving him with his right eye drooping and no feeling in 12 of his teeth, the teen said. NY Post 1/10/11