Brooklyn Tech Teacher Demanded Workout Selfies From Student: Report

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn Tech teacher who pleaded with a student to send him workout selfies and invited her to a concert outside of school resigned from his post after a city investigation.

Brooklyn Technical High School teacher David Lo, 37, sent “inappropriate” messages to a student through his personal email account in 2015, according to a report from the city’s Special Commissioner of Investigation.

“Any recent workout pics?” Lo wrote the student, whose name and age have been redacted from the report. “If you ever want to run together I am free.”

The questionable relationship began in June 2015, when the student asked Lo for a chance to do some extra credit, according to the report.

Lo began emailing her questions about her workout routine, diet and physical appearance, then asked her to run a charity race and attend a Flo Rida concert with him in Staten Island, said the report.

The investigation, first reported by the New York Post, shows that Lo sent the girl about 100 email messages over the course of one month:

• “Long time no talk! Do you need to get your phone fixed? I thought you were to busy for me and would not write me back ever again!”
• “Let’s see a daily pic of the day from you!”
• “Who would have thought that quiet [name redacted] would be my favorite pen pal to write to during the summer!”

The student turned down his frequent invitations and, when he asked for her photograph, sent a picture of her dog instead, investigators found.

Lo was reported to the SCI in July 2015, reassigned from Brooklyn Tech — where he had been a teacher for the past 10 years — in September 2015, according to the report and a Department of Education spokesperson.

“This behavior is unacceptable and has no place in our schools," said DOE spokesman Michael Aciman. "Mr. Lo resigned from the DOE and is no longer eligible for future employment in New York City public schools.”

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