By WILLIAM DOOLITTLE
Messenger Reporter
It is difficult to fully understand the controversy swirling around Pleasant Valley High School teacher Bruce Smith without actually reading some of the material that shocked one set of parents.
The pornographic passages are crude and deeply disturbing to the parents, their federal law suit claims. Some passages are quoted below, but they have been cut to excise the dirtiest parts.
YOU ARE FORWARDED.
Make up your own mind as to whether the text is suitable for sharing with seniors by their teacher.
In his book
- Memoirs of a Class President
the suits claims the following passages to be authentic and written by Smith. The parents say he showed the book to students.
• “I didn’t like the guy I caught my mom having sex with …”. (page 6
of Memoirs of a Class President)
• “I guess a blow job is out of the question?” (page 149 of Memoirs of a
Class President)
• “It all but happened. We started out on her couch and ended up in her
bed. The kissing evolved into the steady shedding of clothes until we
were naked beneath the blankets etc etc. Memoirs of a Class President)
• “It happened in the rec room downstairs. The very same room where
I caught that showy girl riding Bill Shearer at my first party … At first
it went like it always did: necking, kissing, touching, feeling. Clothes
were shed piece by piece. I didn’t rush. etc etc (page 729,
-
Memoirs of a
Class President)
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Interestingly the suit is not against Smith but is against Defendant, John J. Gress, High School Principal, and Frank Pullo, Superintendent of Pleasant
Valley School District.
The Federal suit claims Gress and Pullo wrongly revealed the names of the complaining parents to Smith, who then contacted them.
