One of our teachers used the 'N' word in the staff room the other day, an infant teacher. The hubub of gentle conversation ground abrubtly to a halt and you could have heard a pin drop. There was a sharp intake of breath as she was instantly and severely reprimanded by a senior colleague, "I don't think we want to hear that word again..................certainly not in October."
Like a coward I kept quiet. "When do we start to plan for the school nativity" I thought, along with, "better not be first to mention the 'C' word."