Woodbury High School was an intriguing setting for last night's "60 Minutes" piece on the lingering controversy over the use of the N-word in Huckleberry Finn. The suburban high school -- where only 9 percent of the 1807 students are black -- has two literature teachers who take completely different approaches to this pejorative term.

(And, yes, the term is nigger, which I will refer to as the N-word for the rest of this blog because it carries with it so much hatred and prejudice. There are persuasive arguments that you give the term too much power if you don't use it. But that isn't an argument I'll solve with this blog post. Click here for a more thorough examination of the word.)

The reason for the piece was a new edition of Mark Twain's American classic, which replaces the 219 references to the N-word in the book with the word slave. Woodbury high school uses the original text with the offensive term, but its teachers take different approaches to how they discuss it in class.

Teacher Karen Morrill only says "N-word" -- not the actual word -- during student discussion. "I might not always reach and nourish and nurture every single student, but I can certainly do my best not to harm them."

Teacher Nora Wise believes using the term has educational value: "It make sense in this novel to teach it with the controversy. It makes sense to bring up all of the hard emotions. They come with it. It's not just a classic book. It's not just the way the words are written. It's the ideas."

Wise precedes the discussion of Huck Finn with three classes of discussion about race. Morrill's thoughts about the new edition of Huck Finn were published earlier this year by MPR. That sparked the interest of "60 Minutes" in using Woodbury high as the site for its piece.

The only black student in Wise's English class, Jeremy Richardson, told "60 Minutes" that he didn't react externally when Wise used the word, but he was bothered by it. "I didn't want anybody to see that I was having a problem with her reading the word. That may be it. But I definitely did have a problem with it."

The N-word-free version of Huck Finn is published by New South books in Montgomery, Alabama. The owner said he grew up using the term but now considers it to be "poison." He views the revised edition as a chance for students to read the classic in districts that are uncomfortable with the term. An author and scholar from the University of Oregon countered that the revised book is "not Huckleberry Finn anymore" and that removing the word deprives students of an important "teachable moment."