U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Court: Teacher Violated "Community Values" Using Sex Terms

May 11, 2001

On Thursday the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the punishment of a teacher who was reprimanded and fined for using sexual imagery that violated "community values" in a lecture to an 11th grade class. Richard Bernstein, who had used the terms "penis" and "clitoris" when explaining the literary technique phallogocentrism, had been fined $3,000 and reprimanded by a hearing officer in 1999.

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Associated Press
05.10.01

This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.

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