The longtime chair of discipline at the Ontario College of Teachers is the co-author of a soft porn book for teens that chronicles the sexy adventures of Grade 9 girls and boys at a mythical Toronto high school.

The Sexteens and the Fake Goddess is a lurid tale of striptease, breast fondling, bum grabbing, orgasms, drugs and blackmail that features a deputy headmaster who sweeps a sex assault under the carpet and tells male students at a pep rally that if he was younger he would have sex with all the girls in the audience. Another teacher gives a boy advice on French kissing and as the plot unfolds we learn that the deputy headmaster and a third teacher once had a threesome with a female student.

It's hard to believe, but the co-author is teacher Jacques Tremblay, one of the most important education officials in Ontario.

Tremblay presides over many of the tough cases that come before the College's disciplinary committee. The cases deal with teachers alleged to have violated the trust of students and the public through sexual assault, verbal and physically abusive attacks, or incompetent behaviour. Tremblay and other members must decide if a teacher is innocent or guilty, hand out punishment if they deem it necessary and decide if a teacher found to have behaved inappropriately should be named.

Tremblay, in a written response to questions from the Star, said his work as an author is separate from his “public interest” work at the College. He said The Sexteens book “is meant to empower teenagers, to encourage them to be strong and resist or avoid peer pressure.” Tremblay said the book has “been endorsed by parents and educators.” He did not identify the parents and educators.

Tremblay has been chair of the watchdog's discipline committee since 2006 and was first elected to the College's council two years before that, said College spokesman Brian Jamieson. The Sexteens was published in 2008.

His wife, Marie-Ange Gagnon, and another person (Michael Tremblay) are listed as authors. It is published by their company, Glowing Shadow Productions.

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A Star investigation has found that over the past three years the disciplinary panels are, more and more, shielding bad teachers by keeping their names secret.

One recent case he dealt with involved Hamilton teacher Ryan Geekie. Female students said he called them “whore,” “pole dancer” and “retard” and said he told them tongue studs were for oral sex. Geekie's identity was kept secret by Tremblay's panel.

He received a three-month suspension.

Asked about Tremblay's book and his watchdog role, Jamieson provided two short responses to questions from the Star.

Tremblay is “a member of council and chair of discipline and his writing does not have an impact on his ability to act in the public interest and there is no evidence of such,” he said.

Earlier, Jamieson explained how the College chooses members and how Tremblay became discipline chair.

“Council members must be in good standing to seek an elected position and must be employed as full or part-time teachers. Once elected, council members are required to take an oath of office. It's up to council members themselves to elect their colleagues to the various statutory and special committees. The committees meet to select their chair and then provide a recommendation to council on a candidate of their choice.”

Tremblay's College bio notes that he has taught elementary and secondary students French, computer studies and technology over the past 16 years. He teaches for the Eastern Ontario French School Board.

Another of his bios notes he is a wine lover, lives “an organic lifestyle” and is a certified trainer in infant massage.

The cover of The Sexteens and the Fake Goddess shows the CN Tower in Toronto. In the foreground, two teenagers, one female and one male, stand naked from the waist up, their backs to the camera. The boy has an iPod tucked in his waistband. The book bills itself as a “novel for teens and adults” that “is the first book of a series that truly reflects the life of today's teens.”

Leila Montana and Steve McPhee are Grade 9 students alternately falling in love and battling the corrupt administration of their school, St. Valentine High.

Leila is initiated into the Secret Sexteen Society, which the book says exists in a parallel dimension and helps teens 13-20 through each step of their “sexual discoveries.”

Every few pages, the authors toss in descriptions of young girls' breasts (“regardless of their modest size, her firm and wonderfully rounded breasts arouse in Tony desire, fascination and concupiscence.”)

As the book progresses, the heat is turned up. Tony (another student) observes a “short dress” revealing “perfectly carved, smooth and irresistibly fleshy buttocks.”

Before you know it, Leila is doing a striptease for three boys via the Internet and Steve, well, Steve gets pretty aroused.

Enter Harry Dick. He is the deputy headmaster and school disciplinarian. Baldheaded, chubby, he trots around St. Valentine checking girls' skirts to make sure they are not too short.

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What we learn, eventually, about Dick, is he has pornography on his school computer, he is loosely involved in some kind of cocaine smuggling ring and he is in bed (financially) with the evil bankroller of St. Valentine, whose nasty son prowls the hallways finding trouble wherever he can.

For a school setting, the behaviour is pretty inappropriate.

Some of the images and comments in the story are similar to cases the Ontario College of Teachers deals with.

When the cheerleaders are preparing for the big football game pep rally, Dick, female student teacher in tow, arrives in the gym to announce to the cheerleaders, “My boys don't have the right to lose tomorrow with hotties like this to encourage them,” adding that if he was still young, “I'd give everything to win the match and please these hot chicks.”

There's a game of strip poker and if a female student is losing she has to pull down her pants and be swatted by a male student with a fly swatter on the butt until blood is drawn.

Then there's Frank Malenfant, the 20-year-old son of the evil bankroller of the school. Frank is still in Grade 10. He attacks a Grade 9 girl in the cafeteria, grabs her breast and the girl visits Harry Dick to complain. There's a cellphone video of the assault and the student wants the police called.

Dick replies: “Come on Veronica, it's not that bad ... it's not rape for God's sake!”

Later, facing pressure from other students to expel Malenfant, Dick destroys the video and arranges a transfer for Malenfant to another school. “Don't worry, I will get rid of your suspension history and any evidence against you.”

Every few pages, the authors drop in some more light sex. Wet dreams, “swelling in the underwear,” “exploring these burning fleshy hemispheres,” you get the picture.

One student makes the rounds of the male teachers, getting her marks raised for, well, flirting. The science teacher is one victim, he “eyes (Amy) hungrily” and bumps her mark from 62 to 79. Another teacher goes out to dinner with the Grade 9 girl and she gets that mark raised, too.

Before you know it, the class is on a trip to the Bahamas, chaperoned by Harry Dick who blows his stack at one student, calling him a “pervert” because he is gay.

There's international drug smuggling intrigue — almost impossible to follow — and readers see students blackmail Harry Dick, threatening to reveal his threesome with a female student and the history teacher.

The book is listed on Chapters/Indigo, Amazon, Kobo and other sites, where its description reads: “Confrontations and conflictual relationships with adults in position of authority explode throughout the school.”

How does it end? Frank Malenfant commits suicide and the hero students are in an uneasy standoff with Dick.

Kevin Donovan can be reached at (416) 869-4425 or kdonovan@thestar.ca