Emily Streb Redux

Updated at bottom.

I've had some comments come in on a previous post on Emily Streb.

March 7, 2007 -- A beautiful blond music teacher has been busted for allegedly having a torrid affair with an underage special-ed student.

The comments prompted me to take a look around the Internet. It appears she also has a profile as emmie*love*girl at OkayCupid. It may shed some light on her mindset and suggest it was possible she did get involved with a mature looking student, especially if he was Latin.

I have a passion for all things Latin. Especially men (wink wink).

Dancing my ass off in some nasty, dirty, skeevy, sweaty club with not a care in the world...

My Self-Summary
I am a fiesty, stubborn woman with the world at her fingertips. I am a self-proclaimed nut-job, with bad habits like biting my nails until they bleed or giving homeless people lots of money to buy liquor. Though my favorite outfit happens to be my white straitjacket, I tend to have a loving, caring quality about me, with many addictions including hugging random people, making out with babies, or touching myself in public. What?

What I'm Doing With My Life
I tell people that I am liberating myself...but really, I'm a wanderer...they call me the wanderer...I get around and around andaroundandaroundandaround.
I'm Really Good At baking weird things...mostly cookies

The First Thing(s) People Usually Notice About Me
my smile...i smile constantly...even when i'm nervous or upset...it's automatic.

The SIX Things I Could Never Do Without
1. Dancing. 2. Sunshine 3. My sister 4. Toothpaste 5. Ice cream 6. Love
I Spend a Lot of Time Thinking About
chili dogs.

On a Typical Friday Night I Am
Dancing my ass off in some nasty, dirty, skeevy, sweaty club with not a care in the world...

The Most Private Thing I'm Willing to Admit Here Is
I have a passion for all things Latin. Especially men (wink wink).

You should message me if:
you are at work, pretending to be busy... you don't have any spelling errors in your profile... you actually say the "g" at the end of words like "eating" or "fighting" your favorite restaurant isn't olive garden or TGI Friday's... you are an insomniac.

Update: God bless modern education - heated discussions on Hip Hop. What a freaking waste of taxpayer dollars.

Reviewer:emmielovegirl (New York, NY) - I am a high school music teacher and was not exactly trained in hip-hop education. My students are very hip-hop oriented (at least, what they think hip-hop is), and I found it important to do some research. The question of identity is a central theme in this piece, I believe second to the question of hip-hop, which made the read intriguing as well as informative. Every day, I read to my students and we fall into heated discussion regarding the quality and evolution of hip-hop as we know it. Is hip-hop dead? This book is literal and figurative from cover to cover. Definitely worth the time.

Comments

[Jeff]

Where was she when I was in high school?

She looks kind of crazy in the first picture.

[Zifnab]

I don't know which is creepier. Her OKCupid page, or Dan's full page post on her OKCupid page.

[templar knight]

I know which is creepier. An education system that allows sluts like this to have access to kids without any apparent oversight from school administators or parents. One wonders how these people become teachers in the first place.

[scarshapedstar]

"I know which is creepier. An education system that allows sluts like this to have access to kids without any apparent oversight from school administators or parents. One wonders how these people become teachers in the first place."

Yeah. I remember, in high school, I couldn't stand that one hot librarian. Whenever I was forced do endure her short skirts, I sat around and longed for Miss Martin, the 400-pound crone with a nose wart who taught History.

Attractive women have no place in society.

[Buzzy]

Are the Democrats in favor of peophile school teachers? Sure looks like it from their comments here.

[Zifnab]

"Are the Democrats in favor of peophile school teachers? Sure looks like it from their comments here."

Link plz!

Seriously? Are you gay? You prefer fuggly old men in suspenders that smell funny to 20-something college girls in short skirts? I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just curious if you're gay.

[templar knight]

scar, I see you skipped reading comprehension.

[caseyschenkofsky]

Unfortunately, given that you probably have very little interest or understanding of what Hip Hop was (culture) and has become (multimillion dollar enterainment industry), and have not said anything about the history of funding for the arts in NYC public schools, your comment about a waste of taxpayers dollars is really off base. Where is the waste? Arts funindg was cut in the seventies, and was never put back into the budget. Of what little arts education there is in NYC public schools, much of it is outsourced to a small number of non profits that were established in the wake of funds being cut around thirty years ago. So where is the waste? Do you have any idea of what you are talking about in terms of New York City?

[caseyschenkofsky]

Excuse me:
multimillion dollar entertainment
taxpayers' dollars
Arts funding

[templar knight]

Casey, a teacher reading a hip hop book to her arts students is a waste of taxpayer's money. The key phrase is, " Every day, I read to my students..."

This leaves me with the impression that her students can't read. I draw one of two conclusions from this information, either her students are too young to read, in which case hip hop theory is totally inappropriate; or they are age appropriate and can't read, which should be unacceptable to the NYC school system. Hip hop theory is the last thing these kids need.

[Buzzy]

Z duh, you did get that the OKCupid link was for the girl accused of having sex with an underaged special education student didn't you.

If by education you mean the current problem with teachers having sex with their underaged students then yeah I would rather have old and ugly teachers who actually teach subject matter than that.

So apparently the Democrats are in favor of pedophile school teachers? Sure looks like it from their comments here. Liberalism is a mental illness in which the victims must be further brutalized while their attackers are idolized.

[caseyschenkofsky]

Sorry, I'm not going to spellcheck this.

Mr. or Ms. Knight, I appreciate your not interjecting the tabloid aspect of the post, and sticking to something like a political position. I don't know where you are from, but at this point, the idea of a Bronx schoolteacher wasting taxpayer's money by sharing a book concerned with the global impact of the entertainment industry/youth culture that used to be called bboying seems really absurd to me. I looked at the excerpt from the book that is on Amazon and it seems like a well written text. I find it really sad that this blog would post poorly constructed strings of moral outrage that you might agree with bec. of your existing political position, or for any other reason fo rthat matter. If I can go to Amazon and find enough information to refute the import of the post update, then I feel that the update is at best ignorant.

The book is not about "hip hop theory" per say. Dick Hebdige for ex. did work in the 80s on Hip Hop in part from a sociological perspective. Instead, it looks like it is partly a personal account about the author's coming of age in relation to Hip Hop, and also covers scenes in Japan, South Africa, and Brazil. A book that talks about the world and perhaps gives a student a sense of how to write a narrative in biographical form... Where is the theory in that?

If you or the blogger are trying to advocate for some notion of a canon that should be read by shcoolkids, then fine. But you clearly haven't indicated as much, so I really don't understand the issue. IMO a good teacher can use any text to help students build literacy skills.

[Dan Riehl]

Casey, she's a damn music teacher, get it? Suddenly she should be teaching the sociology of music? What a bunch of bunk. Maybe if she tried teaching music threory instead of making up some lame crap as she went along, the kids might learn something for a change.

[templar knight]

Casey, I'm from Texas. And I have no doubt the book is well written. As for my political views, they are not pertinent to the issue at hand. The issue at hand is education, and whether the taxpayers of New York are getting their money's worth. My conclusion, based on what information I had, was that it was highly unlikely that these kids were getting educated, or that the taxpayer's money was being well spent. The story said the teacher was teaching a class in music, not reading, even though she had to read to her students. Why not let the students read, and then have a discussion, rather than her read to the students on a daily basis. That indicated that the students either could not read, or did not read at the age appropriate level. But perhaps I'm wrong.

[Phoenix]

What? What a strange thread. It sounds as if people are saying young, attractive teachers should not be allowed to teach, reading aloud to students is dumb, and using methods like something the kids identify with to further a lesson should not be allowed.

This is the dumbest bunch of bunk I've ever read. It's so dumb I'm without words to go on.......................

[Phoenix]

Zif,

Are you bi-polar? You write fine commentary and then it's as if something inside your brain goes blank and you state the most ignorant crap. Stupid stuff like why Dan would post this page when the page IS a huge point in this story. wow.... DDS - Dan-Derangement Disorder. Forget the bi-polar.

[caseyschenkofsky]

Yes, I get it, but only when I visualize you riding on the 4 line, running from car to car, and trying to convince everyone what a waste of time and money it is to discuss Hip Hop in a music class in the Bronx.

[BobInStamford]

Reading a book about hip hop history is about as useful as watching Fox News. Can you blame the Democrats from walking away from their silly little debate?

[bloodrage bob]

**running** away from their "silly little debate", dearie. the gutless dims RAN AWAY like the cowardly little bitches they are.

so of course we can blame them.

[TheSpartan]

Casey, she's a damn music teacher, get it? Suddenly she should be teaching the sociology of music? What a bunch of bunk. Maybe if she tried teaching music threory instead of making up some lame crap as she went along, the kids might learn something for a change.

Actually the sociology of music is hugely important in understanding why musical trends get started to begin with. When teaching The Blues, for instance, it is important for the students to understand why and where they came from, it's not just notes on a page it's an emotional output. That said I can't defend a teacher having sex with her student regardless of that students age or gender, but that has nothing to do with her teaching ability and I can pretty well guarantee that you can't really judge that from this article.

BTW, I know AP English teachers that read aloud to their students, it's about focusing their attention on particular items that they might not have caught the first or second time through.

[Hard Right]

I wouldn't read too much into that page. I still need more info. Most of it is clearly satirical. The "head case" thing is a bit disturbing. The women I've met who described themselves in such a manner were right to do so. Still, it doesn't make her a molester.

[cowpants21]

where did this girl go to high school??

[Alejandro]

i used to fantazied about a substitute teacher, why was i never harrased by a hot teacher? and who cares? well ths guy ddi because he had mental problems i doubt any man would care to have sex with a hot woman or any woman for that matter as long as is not rape obviously. funny how in the US there is such a wild rage about "statutatory rape" and all of that, yet it seems that its the country with the most pedophiles.
i've dates girls 7 yeas olderand 10 years younger with out problem in Mexico or in Italy (and many other countries)is not a big issue, like if my 16 year old sister whants to fuck a 25 year old its her deal, ill probably kick the guys ass if i find out, not becasue its wrong to sleep witha 16 year old, but because shes my sister, its a cultural thing and im not about to send a guy to prison for 10 years becasue he had concensual sex with a girl. its basic common sense.

[Fingerlakes]

She went to highschool in the Fingerlakes of New York. A small town called Dundee. Dundee Central School

[Jill bo]

I want to lick Emily's beautiful mouth among other things.

[Jake]

Streb has done this before! She has slept with "little boys", minors from her hometown! Pedifiles have serious mental problems, usually steming from their past. She needs psychological help, not jail!

[Mary.]

Thought you might like to know:

I went to high school with this girl.

This is the kind crap that comes out of the crappy town I live in. I'm really not surprised.

I saw her at the store the other day, and of course she was wearing a super short skirt and little top, and I kinda just wanted to grab my little brother by the arm and run away.

[Mary.]

Thought you might like to know:

I went to high school with this girl.

This is the kind crap that comes out of the crappy town I live in. I'm really not surprised.

I saw her at the store the other day, and of course she was wearing a super short skirt and little top, and I kinda just wanted to grab my little brother by the arm and run away.