OC district pushes pause on hip-hop curriculum [founding fathers called "old dead white men"]

NewsOK.com ^ | October 1, 2010 | MEGAN ROLLAND

[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.

[BobP]

The education system has been intentionally dumbed down. The assault on our culture and values has eroded love of country.

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Our public schools are deeply entrenched with a socialist, progressive ideology.

[Dilbert San Diego]

So now we’re teaching history through rap. We’re teaching inaccurate and distorted history through rap. We’re teaching about some complicated historical issues through rap, which doesn’t lend itself to detailed discussions of the history of events such as Andrew Jackson’s presidency.

I am speechless that supposedly education enlightened educators come up with this kind of crap.

[eyedigress]

I wonder if they teach Jackson says bring it.

[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

[Daffynition]

[poobear]

How about “Life After Dead Beats and Government Bureaucrats”?

[FrankR]

Same thing, in many cases.

[Daffynition]

Let's have a *moment of silence* for the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere 2010 style....

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The commies are purposely reaching disrespect for our national heritage, it is nothing less than treason.

The Nation cannot withstand this for long. If American patriots do not find courage to act the Nation will fall!

[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.
 

[Tax-chick]

Is it any better if their boring, State-approved textbooks say exactly the same thing, only don’t get any attention? At least this is making the community pay attention to the nonsense their children are being taught.