A former teacher of an autism class in a New Jersey junior high school has sued its principal and the school district for allegedly retaliating after she reported her colleagues’ inappropriate behavior.

Special education teacher Melissa Pomphrey filed the lawsuit on 22 August in Ocean County Superior Court, accusing the district and others of whistleblower retaliation, disability discrimination, and wrongful discharge, NJ.com reports.

According to the lawsuit, a paraprofessional working at the school was having an inappropriate relationship with an underage student and joined the other respondents in themed parties where they acted as pedophiles in August 2023.

School and district education officials reacted by transferring Pomphrey to a middle school class and the paraprofessional to another class. They also did not renew Pomphrey’s contract after she took a medical leave for depression suffered from May and September 2024 due to the retaliation.

In her lawsuit, the veteran special needs teacher is seeking reinstatement, back pay, legal fees and court-ordered training for district officials on discrimination and retaliation, according to NJ.com.

Meanwhile, TikTokers are bashing a ninth-grade English teacher at the Reach! Partnership School in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

The bashers were reacting to the posts of James Roman Stilipec, 50, showing the former US Navy sailor donning an unusual attire.

The photos showed him wearing huge prosthetic breasts and a pregnant belly, New York Post (NYP) reports.

The teacher using the social media name “Jay Aress” regularly role-plays as a woman with heaving fake breasts — on top of the non-binary’s already massive 36DDD breast implants — and fantasizes about being pregnant in bizarre videos on Instagram, X and TikTok, according to NYP.

The profile photos, however, were taken with a school bulletin board in the background and not in a classroom.

Stilipec was previously married to a woman and authored fantasy slavery and extreme BDSM novels featured in the Amazon digital library and literary platform Goodreads.