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Disabled teacher quits after date with porn star

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published August 13, 2007


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MONESSEN, Pa. - A high school art teacher who went on a date with a porn star after winning a satellite radio contest has resigned.

Jaison Biagini traveled to St. Petersburg last month after winning the date on the Sirius satellite radio show Bubba the Love Sponge.

The school board voted Tuesday to accept his resignation.

Biagini, who taught art for 14 years at Monessen High School, said he entered the contest because he wanted to win the free trip and visit the Salvador Dali museum in St. Petersburg. He described the date as being "all fake and staged."

Biagini, who uses a wheelchair, was interviewed on the radio show after returning home, and told the Valley Independent in Monessen that he was ridiculed for his disability.

[Last modified August 13, 2007, 00:06:22]


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