{"id":6184,"date":"2010-10-25T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2010-10-25T11:37:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:37:07","slug":"uft_or_nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/10\/uft_or_nfl.html","title":{"rendered":"UFT Or NFL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s wrong to use certain words around children, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/10\/20\/2010-10-20_cwords_no_big_deal_teachs_suit.html\">even in Spanish<\/a>, but a $15,000 fine as well? That seems a little harsh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A veteran teacher who was sidelined over accusations of spewing a Spanish profanity is suing the city over his suspension and $15,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>[A] teacher at the High School of International Business and Finance in Washington Heights, denies using the Spanish word for &#8220;c&#8212;&#8221; in front of students &#8212; and wants to know what the big deal is, anyway.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just for comparison&#8217;s sake, the Cleveland Browns&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/browns\/index.ssf\/2010\/10\/cleveland_browns_safety_tj_war_1.html\">T.J. Ward was recently fined $15,000 for clobbering a wide receiver in the end zone<\/a>. In September, the Washington Nationals&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/nationalsjournal\/2010\/09\/nyjer_morgan_suspended_eight_g_1.html\">Nyjer Morgan was fined $15,000 for FSU in games that don&#8217;t matter that late in the season<\/a>. And in Oregon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktvl.com\/articles\/oregon-1197030-ore-faces.html\">you can get fined $15,000 for poaching elk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s wrong to use certain words around children, even in Spanish, but a $15,000 fine as well? That seems a little harsh: A veteran teacher who was sidelined over accusations of spewing a Spanish profanity is suing the city over his suspension and $15,000 fine. [A] teacher at the High School of International Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}