A former prodigy at the prestigious Bronx High School of Science who went on to become a city chemistry teacher resigned last year after she “engaged in an inappropriate relationship” with a male student in the Manhattan high school where she taught, an investigation found.
Shoshana Leffler, 37, was once a star student at the Bronx High School, where she and her twin brother Abba were both among 300 semifinalists in the nationwide Intel Science Talent Search.
She attended Princeton and NYU, then landed a teaching job in 2019 with the city Department of Education.
But in February 2023, Leffler, then 36, was caught on video taking a 17-year-old male student into a locked bathroom at the High School for Health Careers and Sciences in Manhattan’s Fort George — then later handing the teen a wad of cash.
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