An English teacher in Florida has been given a 3 day suspension after assigning students a Lil' Wayne listening assignment for homework. The assignment was intended to give students a good understanding of language techniques such as puns, similes and metaphors, however it was deemed inappropriate due to the heavy profanity in the song lyrics.
An unidentified South Florida English teacher has been suspended after assigning rap lyrics as homework. Family experts condemn the teacher's decision as an endorsement of obscenities and cultural misogyny.
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The English teacher at the Charter School of Boynton Beach assigned lyrics from the Lil Wayne song "Six Foot Seven Foot," asking students to underline figurative language. Janice Crouse, executive director and senior fellow at Concerned Women for America's Beverly LaHaye Institute, told CP about the negative effects such teaching decisions can have on students. When teachers assign this sort of material, "it gives it an official stamp that only the teacher has agreed to," she commented.
According to WSB-TV in Atlanta, a sixth-grade teacher at Bethune Cookman Middle School in DeKalb County sent students home with a homework assignment where they were supposed to recreate rap lyrics with their own words and create a positive message. The song assigned? 2ff7e9595c
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