http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9424130Basically a student asked a question about sex which the teacher answered. It probably was a serious question and the article implies that it was something about homosexuality, masturbation, and/or oral sex. You would think that those are normal things for a sex-ed class but I actually don't remember any of those things being talked about when I had that class a few years ago.
Anyways, the normal punishment is that the teacher gets put on paid leave until the end of the year if they go really off the sex-ed curriculum and that's what happened to this teacher. Some congressman wants to make a bill that has criminal penalties. Plus it would put teachers who violate the requirements somehow to have their name put on a registry like a sex offender.
Really, all of this because a teacher answered a serious question?