A Maspeth High School math teacher and dean who students say gave them answers on Regents exams and texted with them has been remo𝐆ved, ♛The Post has learned.
Danny Sepulveda was escorted out of the Queens school in late December “🦄due to an ongoing investigation,” the city Department of Education confirmed.
DOE officials said the investigation was “unrelated to academ💫ic fraud.”
But Sepulveda, 30, is one of several teachers who gave kids answers during Regents exams, according to statements give🧔n to investigators.
One student wrote last year that Sepulveda re-read the questions at the end of the exam: “But while he was reading it he was only saying the right answer choice, and this made me uncomfortabl🔯e because it 🗹showed he didn’t believe in me to pass the exam.”
Anඣother student wrote that during a math Regents exam in June 2018, Sepulveda and math teacher Chris Grunert “helped me and other kids in 🍌my room with answers.”
Grunert and others accused🍰 of aca💞demic misconduct have not been removed from the school.
In texts to a fellow teacher, Sepulꦚveda defended the practice of giving kids answers, arguing it protect൩s their futures.
“Having someone fai🔯l and not graduate HS because of a state exam that colleges never look at is more of a failure than anything else. I look at state tests as theღ anti-christ,” Sepulveda wrote.
He also wrote, “You don’t get it, man … It’s different here. It’s different because I’m not going to not even give these kids a shot at the real world because they didn’t pass HS. That’s ridiculous.”
During last week’s Regents exams, the DOE let Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir and two assistant principals — all under investigation — administer and proctor the tests.
The DOE said it sent “test monito✱rs” to Maspeth as a precaution. “The💦re were no reports of cheating,” a spokeswoman said.
In a letter to Councilman Robert Holden, who also raised concerns about the Regents exams, the DOE said it has “trained” Maspeth personnel. Among instructions, employees were told not to “give students any clues or answers.”
Sepulveda also texted frequently with students during the🃏 school day, insiders said.
Among multiple text exchanges turned over to investigators, a student repeatedly asks Sepulveda if he ﷽can come to his offi𝔉ce.
“I won’t do anything s🍌tupid anymore, from here on out. Your’e always good to ⭕me and I don’t wanna make you look bad. I’m sorry,” the student says.
Sepulveda r🌳eplies, “You know your’e my guy. Just let me be able to hype you up again.”
ꦰAcademic fraud at Maspeth High School is one of the complaints that led to the feds now looking into allegations of systemic ch✤eating at city schools.