A Brooklyn high school teacher who lost her job almost six years ago for getting busy with another teacher in a classroom will be back in class this fall.
The teacher, Cindy Mauro, will also receive tens of thousands of dollars in back pay thanks to a generous appeals court ruling, reports the New York Post
Mauro, now 39, was one of two female foreign language instructors at James Madison High School who participated in the raunchy romp in November 2009.
The other teacher was Alini Brito, a now-35-year-old Spanish teacher.
Investigators say the pair had returned to school to see a student musical performance after going out for dinner and a few shots together.
At around at 8:50 p.m., they stole away to a dimly lit Room 337 at Madison High for a quick romp. Specifically, court papers say, Mauro was naked from the waist up. Mauro was down on her knees and “between” Brito’s “legs.”
An unidentified janitor who had no appreciation for live teacher-on-teacher classroom action caught the couple in the act and made a report to school officials.
Mauro will return to the classroom in September. She will also receive three full years of back pay.
The big-hearted appeals court concluded that the teachers’ behavior “demonstrated a lapse in judgment” but was just “a one-time mistake,” reported CBS New York last year when the appellate decision came down. (RELATED: High School Teachers Fired For Half-Naked Lesbian Classroom Tryst Get Their Jobs Back)
Mauro still isn’t satisfied, though. She is currently demanding more of the back pay she has missed since getting entangled in the classroom hanky-panky.
Court papers she has filed argue that the lost pay is “harsh, irrational and shocking to the conscience,” notes the Post.
Mauro’s filing notes that Brito received a lesser punishment. The difference in punishments appears to result from the different ways in which the two teachers reacted to getting busted.
Brito, the shirtless one, was “terrified” and pleaded with her principal “not to tell” anyone.
Mauro, the one between Brito’s legs, “made light of the whole situation, as if nothing had happened,” Department of Education hearing officer Michael Lazan noted in an explanation of the differing punishments.
Lazan suggested that Mauro had “failed as a role model,” according to the Post.
After spending time in New York City’s infamous teacher rubber rooms, Brito and Mauro were initially fired in January 2011.
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