N.Y. Teacher Caught Up in Spanish Curse Word Debate
Charleston Daily Mail › November 30, 2010
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NEW YORK - It can be tossed off almost harmlessly like "damn" or dropped like an F-bomb.
On the streets of New York's diverse Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, it can be heard expressing joy, frustration and outrage.See the full content of this document
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N.Y. Teacher Caught Up in Spanish Curse Word Debate
Perhaps most notoriously in pop culture, it punctuated the film dialogue of "Scarface" in 1983.
Now a public high school teacher is suing the city after he was suspended and fined $15,000 for what school officials say was misconduct for using it in his Manhattan classroom.The word, "cono," c...See the full content of this document
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