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New York City teacher suspended for allowing students to use vulgar terms during AIDS discussion settles suit

ccording to the New York Daily News, Faith Kramer, the teacher who let middle school students use sexually explicit language in a classroom discussion on AIDS, has agreed to a settlement in her lawsuit against the city.

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Teacher’s use of sexually explicit and slang terms in sex ed class was not constitutionally protected speech

A federal district court in New York has ruled that a teacher failed to state a valid First Amendment free speech claim based on being disciplined for eliciting sexually explicit and slang terms from students in the course of teaching a state-mandated HIV/AIDS lesson. The court held, however, that the teacher had stated a valid procedural [...]

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