On September 5, 2002, The Daily Record in Dunn, NC, reported the following story from Wilmington, NC. A fourth grade teacher has received a formal reprimand for teaching her students the word "niggardly," the teacher's son said. Last week, Stephanie Bell, a teacher a Williams Elementary School, said she used the word "niggardly," which means stingy or miserly, during a discussion about literary characters. Parent Akwana Walker, who is black, protested the use of the word, saying it offended her because it sounds similar to a racial slur. Ms. Bell said the N.C. Association of Educators has told her not...