Reinstate lesbian teachers caught having sex in classroom, court orders school
NEW YORK CITY , March 21, 2014 – A five-panel appellate court has ruled that having sex in a public school classroom is no reason to lose your job. Justices with the Manhattan Appellate Division have ordered James Madison High School to reinstate two lesbian teachers whom they fired after a janitor found them having sex inside a classroom during a school event. French teacher Cindy Mauro, 38, and Spanish teacher Alini Brito, 34, went to a bar after school, then returned to attend a school singing competition in January 2011. They left the event and went into Room 337, when the custodian found the pair engaged in sexual activity. Both were naked from the waist up. The school fired the pair, both of whom had tenure. The teachers denied any wrongdoing, saying that Brito needed to get something to eat to stabilize her blood sugar, and filed a lawsuit. On Thursday, the panel ruled, “The penalty of termination of unemployment is shockingly disproportionate to [t