A Staten Island sex education teacher who sued the city after she was suspended for allowing slang in the classroom won an undisclosed settlement. During one lesson, Faith Kramer listed clinical words for sexual organs, sexual acts and bodily fluids on the chalkboard, and then asked her eighth grade students what language they used to discuss them. Kids shouted things like "furburger," "blow job," and "schmeckle," and wrote them down in their notebooks. Cue the outraged parents and the reactionary Department of Education, which banished Kramer to a rubber room. A judge ruled against the city's attempt to dismiss the lawsuit, noting there are no actual rules prohibiting "vulgarisms" during sex-ex classes. Kramer will be back at IS 72 this fall. more ›

The New York State Department of Education syllabus says that a teacher instructing students about STDs and sex should encourage children to use words they understand. "If students use different terms," the syllabus says, "make sure they understand the relationship between both sets of terms." So during a class on HIV one day in 2008, Staten Island health teacher Faith Kramer did just that, writing down the clinical words for sexual organs, sexual acts and bodily fluids on the chalkboard, then asking the eighth grade students what language they used to talk about such matters. That's when the trouble started. more ›

The waitress who was rejected from her "dream job" as a bikini waitress at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone is now being accused of advertising herself as a Craigslist prostitute by lawyers for the restaurant chain. 21-year-old Melody Morales has filed a million dollar lawsuit against HTZ because a manager at the Times Square eatery rejected her application because he said that she had a "speech problem." The problem? It was "too ghetto." more ›