Parents try to fire teacher for assigning "niggardly" as a vocabulary word

The Wilmington Star ^ | Sept 1, 2002 | Sherry Jones

[Movemout]

"This has inspired me to do a little experiment. I'm a newspaper writer. My plan is to use the word "niggardly" in an upcoming story (in its proper context, of course), and see how many people complain. "

Please let us know how your experiment turns out. I hope it doesn't become a chink in your aspirations. Your editor may become niggardly with paychecks as pertains to you. Of course, hillbillies are fair game and you are a mountaineer. Perhaps if you put a diaper on your head and paint a red dot on your forehead you will be able to repel the evil spirits of unemployment.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Who cares what someone named Akwana has to say?

Akwana dictionary, so akin look up disword "niggardly".

[Young Werther]

And when they find the synonym for "niggardly" is penury these ignorami will have an educational ejaculation!

Main Entry: pen·u·ry

Pronunciation: 'pen-y&-rE

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Latin penuria, paenuria want;perhaps akin to Latin paene almost

Date: 14th century

1 : a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as money); especially : severe poverty

2 : extreme and often niggardly frugality

[badfreeper]

"Referring to another human being as a "dick" is most certainly a vile slur."

Even if his name is Richard and he says he doesn't mind? ;)

[Paul Atreides]

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Akwana is one of the people angry over Pepsi dropping Ludacris.

[Hipixs]

If niggardly is out of bounds, what are they going to think of this:

snigger
   n : a disrespectful laugh [syn: snicker, snort] v : laugh quietly [syn: snicker]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

from:Dictionary.com

[strela]

Of course, even the colors commonly found on playing cards are inherently racist. Red is the color of blood, and "Bloods" is a catchall term describing large, multi-city groups of street gangs, most of African-American descent.

By Jehosephat, it gets worse! In most places where one finds Bloods, one also finds "Crips," which is an awful slur describing Differently-Abled Americans!

The cancer is everywhere, people.

[Lower55]

And then there's ....

Volvo, clip, Virgina, Libya, Uranus, Aretha, bald, public, taint, ...

[Paul Atreides]

Akwana dictionary, so akin look up disword "niggardly".

Yo fo'got to axe me "Please, kin I barrah yo diksh'nerry."

[maxwell]

[snigger]

[Paul Atreides]

How about women, named Mulva?

[SouthernFreebird]

The Scottish can no longer be a Klan.

and that toilet paper 'Scotts'.....thats got to go

[maxwell]

Well in all seriousity it's a durn shame that the principal doesn't have the backbone God gave a horned toad...
I don't think Ms. Bell should've apologized, either. I can understand why she did, though, so as not to become the victim of some street vigilantism at the hands of ignorant dipwads looking for something to get violent about...

[Paul Atreides]

Remember, on Rush's television show, when he showed the financial magazine cover, stating that a company was "vanilla", and a bunch of blacks got angry over it, claiming it to be racist?

[Lower55]

There are two girls in HS down here with wierd names.....one is pronounced 'you-triss' and spelled anatomically.....and the other girl's name is pronounced 'ah-show-lee' and also spelled corectly...absolutuly true.

[Paul Atreides]

I wouldn't mind if they did away with Scott's toilet paper. It is the same as wiping your butt with crepe paper.

[Constitution Day]

Use of a word that sounds like a racial slur has landed a New Hanover County teacher in the middle of a controversy.
Stephanie Bell, a fourth-grade teacher at Williams Elementary School, taught the word "niggardly" to her class last week in an effort to improve her students' vocabularies.
Now, a parent wants her fired..

Ridiculous North Carolina news ping.

[Lower55]

add an R to corectly, thanks.....in front of, or behind the one already there.

[Paul Atreides]

Oh, I believe you! Trust me, I live in Alabama. At a Wal Mart, there was a cashier named Throsia.

[Constitution Day]

My mother taught HS for many years.
Once she had a student whose first name was "FEMALE", pronounced "feh-MA-lee".

I am not kiddding.