Hip Hop has
been the source for education courses for years. From 2Pac‘s music being
analyzed at the University of Washington to The Notorious B.I.G.‘s “Ten
Crack Commandments” being taught as an online business class to Nas
becoming the inspiration for a Harvard University fellowship, rapper’s cultural
contributions are now actively a part of higher learning.
It seems one teacher in Florida may have
taken rap music’s educational value a little too far. An eighth grade
English class at the Charter Schools of Boynton Beach was assigned to read
the uncensored version of Lil Wayne’s “6 Foot 7 Foot.” Apparently, the
students were instructed to find examples of figurative language in the song,
but the explicit lyrics found in Tha
Carter IV track upset some parents.
The school administration claims
the assignment was not approved. Headmaster Wayne Owens released a
statement to WBTV News Channel 5 saying the students were having trouble
understanding literary devices, and the teacher decided to use “colloquial
material” as a way to help the students grasp the concepts.
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