BY BRIAN HARMON
DAILY NEWS LONG ISLAND BUREAU CHIEF Ethan Mirenberg, in lawyer’s office, uses photo (below) of Spanish teacher Sharon Cantante smiling as unidentified classmate gives her noogie to protest suspension.
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Honor student Ethan Mirenberg's extracurricular activities include lacrosse, football - and the noogie patrol.
The 14-year-old student is challenging a 10-month suspension from Lynbrook High School for channeling his inner Bill Murray and delivering a fistful of noogies to his Spanish teacher's scalp.
The youth and his lawyer Edward Paltzik say the charges are trumped up.
In fact, Paltzik insists that teacher Sharon Cantante, like Gilda Radner's Lisa Loopner on the old "Saturday Night Live" skit, didn't mind getting a few noogies from the boys.
"She had this very bizarre tendency to invite students to give her noogies," Paltzik claimed. "This teacher has a history of encouraging noogie behavior."
The teen is taking his case to the state Appellate Division. The Mirenberg camp showed a photo of the eighth-grade teacher smiling broadly while absorbing a male student's noogie.
The 39-year-old divorcee seems completely at ease while getting the knuckle rub.
Ethan, at 5-feet-3 and 150 pounds, said he was shocked by Cantante's claims and the subsequent punishment.
"It was never a noogie. It was a pat on the head," said Ethan, who enrolled at a different school, East Rockaway High, in April and can't return to Lynbrook until Sept. 2. "I hugged her while I patted her on the head."
Cantante, who rents a luxury surf-side apartment in Long Beach, refused to comment.
"This has been an ongoing issue the whole year," said Cantante, who stands a petite 4-feet-11. "I know what they're saying, but my attorney told me not to comment." Lynbrook schools Superintendent Philip Cicero, who suspended the freshman honors student in November, said Ethan received a fair hearing.
He said the youth's behavior was "strongly inappropriate" and "cannot be tolerated."
The district alleged that Ethan - a football and lacrosse player - approached Cantante during a basketball game at Lynbrook High School last November.
Ethan, ignoring her pleas to stop, "continued to forcibly press his knuckles against her scalp," according to court records.
Five days later, Ethan and some pals were visiting Cantante in her middle school classroom when Ethan "forcibly grabbed [Cantante] around the neck ... and simultaneously ground his knuckles into her scalp," court documents indicate. Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Thomas Phelan denied Ethan's initial appeal in May, telling his family to pursue a separate Feb. 1 appeal to the state education commissioner.
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Ethan Mirenberg, in lawyer’s office, uses photo (below) of Spanish teacher Sharon Cantante smiling as unidentified classmate gives her noogie to protest suspension.
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