Oklahoma City district pushes pause on hip-hop curriculum

[Chris_]

Oklahoma City district pushes pause on hip-hop curriculum

"I just don't think we were real careful where we deployed it," Allen said. "Not all parts of it are real affective for the more troubled youth."

Of President James Monroe's tenure, the rap says: "White men getting richer than Enron./ They stepping on Indians, women and blacks./ Era of Good Feeling doesn't come with the facts."

That's followed up by an assessment of President Andrew Jackson's checkered dealings with American Indians.

Flocabulary CEO and co-founder Alex Rappaport said the lyrics are made intentionally provocative and sometimes humorous to create student engagement among some of the toughest-to-reach students in the nation.

The Oklahoma City School District has spent about $10,000 so far on the music and corresponding textbooks, Springer said. The Oklahoma City School Board authorized the district to spend up to $97,000 in federal funds on the program.

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[Odin's Hand]

My sales tax dollars at work. The Oklahoma City Superintendent of School's is just one progression of village idiot, or common crook, after another.

[true_blood]

Oklahoma City district pushes pause on hip-hop curriculum

"I just don't think we were real careful where we deployed it," Allen said. "Not all parts of it are real affective for the more troubled youth."

Of President James Monroe's tenure, the rap says: "White men getting richer than Enron./ They stepping on Indians, women and blacks./ Era of Good Feeling doesn't come with the facts."

WOW?!! And these assholes aren't considered racists?!!?

[NHSparky]

About 15 teachers have complained or expressed concern about the rap song lyrics, said Ed Allen, president of the Oklahoma City American Federation of Teachers.

"I just don't think we were real careful where we deployed it," Allen said. "Not all parts of it are real affective for the more troubled youth."

Well, it's not often one gets a "two-fer" in such a short span within an article. 

First we have Mr. Allen, supposedly an educated man, using the word "real" when he should have used the word "very."  Not VERY careful, Mr. Allen--VERY careful.

And then we have the idiot reporter, no doubt a "skull full of mush" from a very highly touted public educational system and journalism school, which no doubt included many courses in English and writing, who even on a so-called professional level cannot tell the difference between affect and effect.  Dear journalist, it's EFFECTIVE.  Affective is not even a word.

Asshats.

[Thor]

Well, it's not often one gets a "two-fer" in such a short span within an article. 

First we have Mr. Allen, supposedly an educated man, using the word "real" when he should have used the word "very."  Not VERY careful, Mr. Allen--VERY careful.

And then we have the idiot reporter, no doubt a "skull full of mush" from a very highly touted public educational system and journalism school, which no doubt included many courses in English and writing, who even on a so-called professional level cannot tell the difference between affect and effect.  Dear journalist, it's EFFECTIVE.  Affective is not even a word.

Asshats.

That's the way we talk down here. It's called a "dialect". Of course, you, being from the part of Texas we threw away, wouldn't understand. I speak very differently than I was taught to write.