New York Post

2 teachers gave kids questions in advance

- By CARL CAMPANILE and SELIM ALGAR carl.campanile@nypost.com

Midterms don’t have to be stressful — as long as you have the tests in advance.

Two city teachers were nailed for providing test questions to students before the exams were to be administer­ed, according to an Office of Special Investigat­ions report.

Informatio­n Technology HS teachers Pierre Foucault and Girvan Walker provided the questions to geometry and statistics midterms before the kids were scheduled to take the exams in April 2013, according to the OSI account.

A guilt-stricken student of Foucault confided to another teacher that Foucault had provided his geometry class with “rearranged but verbatim” midterm questions as a review tool, the report states.

The Long Island City, Queens school’s suspicious principal, Joseph Reed, then logged into the grading system and found that the student’s accusation­s were accurate.

The materials Foucault provided to his students had “no variation between the review posted and the actual exam,” according to an February 2014 OSI report.

Further digging by the principal revealed that Foucault also pulled the same move for his statistics class.

Troubled by the discovery, Reed then vetted other teachers’ online accounts and found that Walker had engaged in the same practice on a statistics midterm for his class, according to the report.

Investigat­ors said an assistant principal told them that kids didn’t have to show their work on the multiple-choice tests and that memorizing the answers based on the review materials would be a cinch.

A student told probers that she would not have been able to pass the test if she didn’t have the questions in advance, while another student acknowledg­ed that the illicit boost definitely helped her make the grade.

Both teachers declined to comment when confronted by investigat­ors at the time.

The OSI report concluded that they both provided the test questions to their students in advance — a clear case of teacher misconduct.

Walker resigned from the DOE in June 2013 and was placed on a list that prohibits him from working with the department again.

Foucault — who was tenured at the time — was slapped with a $4,000 fine and still works at the same school today, according to DOE spokesman Doug Cohen.

“I can’t comment on that,” Foucault told The Post.

Walker could not be reached for comment.

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