no joke,” while still another bragged that he had “banged” a teacher “in music dept. One club member referred to an English teacher as a “crazy ass bitch” and a French teacher as an “acid casualty.” Another boy boasted that he’s “the only person here who actually beats women when hes drunk. The 44 members of the parody club included children of both trustees and the legion of prominent names who send their children to Horace Mann, which sits in the top rung of private schools in New York. The Web page for a Horace Mann Facebook group titled the “Men’s Issues Club” mocked a student organization on campus called the Women’s Issues Club. Sheehy found no evidence of the photos but within a few minutes stumbled on something much worse. Following Kenner’s lead, he logged on to Facebook using middle names. All it took was a Horace Mann e-mail account, a false name, and a year of graduation.
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Logging on to MySpace proved too complicated, but then he recalled a faculty seminar he’d attended the previous spring, in which Adam Kenner, Horace Mann’s technology director, had demonstrated how to monitor student Facebook pages. (Sheehy was chairman of the faculty-grievance committee.) Perhaps it was worth taking a look. Not long ago, a student had told him that classmates were photographing a math teacher with their cell phones and posting the embarrassing pictures online. He had never been on social-networking sites before, but he was troubled by the reaction to the assembly, and his worry triggered a thought.
The students defended J.T.’s words even as the teachers deplored them. Now, in the hallways and in the school newspaper, students and teachers were fiercely debating the presence of sexism on campus. Della Femina, the newly elected student-body president and son of advertising magnate Jerry Della Femina, had brought a female club leader to tears at the opening high-school assembly when he introduced her at the podium as “the Queen of Mean.” It was the fall of 2006, shortly after lunch on a Saturday afternoon. Peter Sheehy, a history teacher at the Horace Mann School, sat in his bedroom, trolling the Internet.
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