[Daffynition]

Flocabulary?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It’s not education it’s indoctrination.

[SIDENET]

Known as Flocabulary, the program is a music-based educational tool that uses raps, rhythms and rhymes to help students learn and memorize everything from vocabulary and English to math and social studies.

This sounds like something off of a Simpsons episode.

[Tzimisce]

That’s okay - hip hop is largely made by young, dead (from drive by shootings), black men.

Can I say that? Or would that be “racist”?

Then don’t say stuff like “old, dead, white men” about my ancestors please.

[MarineBrat]

Casting stupid into stone. That’s our government schools.

[Dallas59]

Totally and utterly ridiculous. How will young Black men and women EVER learn anything with racist attitudes towards not only Whites but other races pushed onto them by their so called leaders....the same leaders that also prevent them from learning history, art, science, mathematics, music (besides rap) and English properly?

[J Edgar]

Question for Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent Karl Springer:
Is stories of “old dead white men” really part of the three R’s?
If not you should be fired, tarred and then feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail blind folded, IN THAT ORDER!

[Kieri]

Sounds like they took the very successful (and clever) concepts behind “Schoolhouse Rock” and perverted them.

[FrankR]

Old dead white men built this country, but as usual, they did the work and someone else does the playing.

There was a show on cable for a while called "Life After People"...they should do one called "Life After White People" to show how fast this country would crumble without them. I would become Haiti in four years. Hell, look what obama has done to it in two years...for example. Never mind Detroit, Atlanta, et al

[counterpunch]

Some people are just not meant to be taught.

[counterpunch]

Flocabulary CEO and co-founder Alex Rappaport

LOL!
That's like a library detective named Bookman, or an ice cream man named Cone.
 

[Soothesayer]

Not surprising. Every rap thug wants top replace our constitutional republic with a thugocracy.

Is it at all surprising that gangsters, the ones who massacre random people walking down the streets, don’t believe in human rights?!

[ETL]

Rapper 'Ludacris'

Lyrics to Ludacris' Obama rap song, "Obama Is Here":

"Hey... I'm back on it

like I just signed my record deal, yeah the best is here

The Bentley Coupe paint is drippin wet, it got sex appeal

Never shoulda hated, you never shoulda doubted him

With a slot in the President's iPod, Obama shouted him

Said I handled my biz and I'm one of his favorite rappers

Well give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer

Better yet put me in office, make me a Vice President

Hillary hated on you so that bitch is irrelevant

Now Jesse talkin slick and apologizin for WHAT~?!

If you said it then you MEANT it how you want it, head or gut

And all you other politicians tryin to hate on my man

Watch us win majority vote in every STATE on my man

You cain't stop what's 'bout to happen, we 'bout to make history

The first black President it's destined and it's meant to be

The threats ain't fazin us, the nooses or the jokes

Get off your ass black people it's time to get out and vote

Paint the White House black and I'm sure that's got 'em terrified

McCain don't belong in ANY chair unless he's paralyzed

Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped

Ball up all of his speeches and just throw 'em like candy wraps

Cause what you talkin I hear nothin even relevant

And you the worst of all 43 Presidents

Get out and vote, or the end'll be near

And the world is ready for change cause Obama is here

YEAHHH! Cause Obama is here

The world is ready for change cause Obama is here

Yeahhhh, cause Obama is here

Say world is ready for change cause Obama is here

Hey!

http://lyrics.rapbasement.com/Ludacris_Politics%20(Obama%20Is%20Here)_lyrics_2129.html

YouTube video: Ludacris - "Obama Is Here":
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=ludacris+obama+is+here&aq=0&oq=ludacris+obama

[ETL]

[goseminoles]

“Evil wars of Florida killing the Seminoles”

Not today against VA. Go Noles!

[CaspersGh0sts]

“Not all parts of it are real affective [SIC!!!!!!!!] for the more troubled youth.”

You think? It’s quite evident this story was written by a troubled youth. Unless we’re speaking about the emotional expression of our youth here, I have no idea what this author is getting at.

And quite frankly, I’m so sick of the “old dead white men” nonsense. Old dead white men made this nation. Period. They fought and died for this nation in war after war. Proudly. We owe them our heritage—what is left in the wake of troubled fools such as these who wrote this nonsense.

Let the young thugs be ripped apart by one another. Rap is trash, and anyone with any sense for music knows it. Why anyone would listen to rap when there’s jazz, classical, bluegrass or country is beyond me.

And I say that as a 20-something.

[Madame Dufarge]

The rap songs also come with a corresponding guidebook that breaks down the lyrics line by line to explain what they mean.

I'd love a peek at the guidebook.

I imagine it runs along the lines of, "Just in case it escaped you, this line illustrates why you should hate America and the white oppressors who are responsible for your present condition, none of which is your fault."

[wintertime]

Another day and another reason to homeschool!

Honestly, there are government schools in this nation that are soooooo horrific that it would be better for a child to NEVER attend. This is true even if he were to be completely illiterate and innumerate. Filling a child's mind with the pollution found in this school comes close to that level.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Daffynition.

Concern over a new hip-hop curriculum that refers to the founding fathers as "old dead white men" has delayed the program's rollout for at-risk students... Known as Flocabulary, the program is a music-based educational tool that uses raps, rhythms and rhymes to help students learn and memorize everything from vocabulary and English to math and social studies. 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.

[SharpRightTurn]

Government schools—just when you thought they couldn’t get any worse.

[reagan_fanatic]

And I thought communist indoctrination in the old Soviet block was bad...