The high-school senior caught on camera locking lips with his hot-to-trot teacher won a bet with four of his buddies to see who would hook up with her first, The Post has learned.
Eric Arty, 18, beat his pals — who each ponied up $100 — to win the jackpot as well as the affections of glamorous global-studies teacher Julie Warning, 26.
“It was a bet with a group of his friends,” said Andrew Cabrera, a junior at Manhattan Theater Lab HS, where Warning worked until Tuesday, when she was reassigned to an administrative job.
“They gave him the $500 [pot],’’ Cabrera said, referring to Eric and the four other contenders who made their wager about three months into the school year.
Their romance was first reported yesterday by The Post — which ran a front-page picture of the duo smooching Friday at Bleecker Playground in the Village.
The case has been turned over to the Department of Education Special Commissioner of Investigations
Cabrera dished yesterday that Arty began the race as a long shot. “He would go after class and basically try to seduce her,’’ he said. “I don’t know if she knew [about the bet]. They were all trying to get with her. One of his [Arty’s] friends flirted with her more than anyone — I thought he would be the one, but Eric came out of nowhere and got her.”
Other students described how Warning at first tried to resist the teenagers’ charms — throwing them out of her classroom when they would turn up to hit on her.
“He [Arty] would flirt with her,” said one junior who requested anonymity because school officials warned students not to talk. “She would try to avoid it because she was his teacher. She was a nice teacher and didn’t want to report him, and she would throw him and his friends out of class for trying to flirt with her,” the student said.
Arty’s friends showed up outside his Washington Heights home yesterday — with copies of the New York Post in hand — to salute their conquering hero, shouting, “Eric’s da’ man!”
The teacher bet was the talk of the school yesterday.
“This has probably been going on for a while now because the signs have been there,” said Maia Torruella, 16, a sophomore.
“The way they act together . . . When he walks into the room, her face lights up,’’ she said. “And when he’s gone, she’s boring. You can tell he’s still on her mind.
“They’re always so nice to each other. He flirts with a lot of girls, sure, but Miss Warning, ohhhhh!”
Warning was a no-show when she was supposed to report to her new desk job yesterday and could not be reached for comment.
A Brooklyn high-school English teacher who was supposed to be tutoring a 16-year-old student instead plied him with pot and repeatedly had sex with him in her school office, the boy’s lawyer charged yesterday.
Erin Sayar, 36, had oral sex and intercourse with then-16-year-old Kevin Eng at least eight times, “including times that occurred on school grounds in [her] office,” at James Madison HS, according to a $10 million notice of claim filed by lawyer Bruce Baron.
Sayar — a married mother of a young girl — gave the youth pot from a stash she kept hidden in her school-office filing cabinet, Baron said.
And the duo exchanged an astounding 3,856 text messages over a 17-day period in December — an average of 227 per day, according to a report by school investigators.
The teacher — who was removed from the classroom in January — has not been criminally charged.
But school investigators have turned the evidence over to Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes and recommended she be fired
The teacher arranged to tutor the teen twice a week in her office, but one day last November the boy’s girlfriend spotted them flirting and got suspicious, the investigative report said.
The girl hacked the teen’s Facebook account and found messages to Sayar that said, “I love you so much” and “I always loved you, since last year.”
The teacher responded, “Oh no — I’m not putting myself out there again. I made that mistake last night and you couldn’t handle it.”
But she gave the teen her cell number and ordered him to delete their exchanges, the report said.
The outraged girl turned the messages over to school officials, and her boyfriend allegedly admitted he had sex with Sayar eight to 12 times, according to the report.
In one midnight rendezvous, Sayar came to his house and picked him up in her SUV.
“Eventually, they began kissing and then engaged in sexual intercourse and oral sex inside the SUV,” the report said, adding that the boy described tattoos on intimate parts of Sayar’s body.
What-Teens Tried to Trade Sex for McDonald’s Meal: Cops
Two Arizona teenagers have been accused of trying to trade sex for food at a local McDonald’s.
Police in Tempe arrested 18-year-old Faelyn Ritz after allegedly watching her and a 14-year-old girl discuss the fast food for sex swap with two transients, ABC15.com reported.
When confronted by an officer, Ritz reportedly copped to the illicit deal and also revealed that she had been a prostitute since age 15.
Ritz was sent to jail and faces child prostitution charges for allegedly helping the younger girl solicit sex, according to ABC15.
