American judge gives green signal for use of slang terms in sex ed class
May 21st, 2010 - 5:57 pm ICT by ANINew York, May 20 (ANI): An American court has backed a teacher who was suspended from a public school for using words such as “furburger”, “schmeckle” and “blow job” while teaching her sex ed/HIV/AIDS class.
Brooklyn federal judge Jack Weinstein allowed the Staten Island teacher to sue the Education Department, saying she acted correctly.
“If the Board of Education wants its teachers to instruct adolescents about HIV using Latinism of the academy, excluding vulgarism of the street, it should tell them so, plainly,” the New York Post quoted Judge Weinstein’s decision statement, as saying.
Faith Kramer, 48, sued the Education Department for 1 million dollars in 2009 after she was suspended from IS 72 and placed in a “rubber room” for five months after parents, who saw their children’s classroom notes complained to officials.
The guidelines for teaching sex ed in the city’s public schools do not prohibit a teacher from using slang terms to teach the class.
Judge Weinstein said: “The regulation relied upon by the Board did not prohibit Ms. Kramer’s conduct.
“It appears to have been selected post hoc, long after her suspension, to justify the measures that had been taken in response to parents’ complaints.”
Kramer’s lawyer, Duane Felton said: “The words used are a frequent part of our language and the language of school children.”
Kramer has now been reinstated and is back to teaching the class. (ANI)
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