Youtube vlogger, @lovelyti gives her opinion on the suspension of
a Florida, USA teacher for giving her 8th grade (Nigerian JSS 2) pupils
the lyrics to Li’l Wayne’s song, ‘6 foot, 7 foot’ to work on for a literature
assignment. Read the full gist below, watch the video and then join the debate.
Was the teacher wrong?
When her students were having trouble grasping literary devices
such as similes and puns, a Florida teacher at Charter Schools of Boynton Beach
assigned more colloquial material to help her pupils reach a better
understanding. But her choice of literature is not what one would normally consider
as appropriate for 8th graders. Certainly not by the parent of one of
the 8th graders, who was outraged when her son came home repeating
the explicit lyrics to Lil’ Wayne’s ‘6 Foot 7 Foot’ song.
The school's administration claims that the
assignment, which asked students to decrypt figurative language in Wayne’s
single off the Carter
IV LP, was not
approved. Headmaster Wayne Owens released a statement to WBTV News Channel 5
explaining that the teacher, who is suspended for 3 days, recognizes the
assignment was “inappropriate.”
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