Teacher playing a Taylor Swift video

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Anonymous wrote:Was it a movement break? Did the lyrics have some type of figurative language? My 8th grade teacher played Alanis Morisette “Isn’t it ironic” when we learned about irony and printed the lyrics for us. No music video though but I’m sure your kids have seen teens kiss on tv before...

Maybe do like Taylor Swift says and calm down?!

Maybe you need to calm down. Watching an age appropriate movie on weekends is totally different from watching a music video during instruction time at school. Do your job and teach using age appropriate material.

Omg! They are showing T Swift. They aren’t showing Kanye West. Your kids have seen worse on video games and TV

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Common Core includes music lyrics as “texts”. My kid was analyzing Hamilton lyrics in ES in a top Atlanta private.

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So home school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So home school.

+1

The OP is unhinged.

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Anonymous wrote:What TS video was this?

Haha OP won’t answer because they know they overreacted.

Yep. 4 pages worth of questions, asking for details, and comments. Nothing from OP.

That’s incorrect. I’ve posted and you didn’t notice. Arguing with immature posters like you is not my goal here. Parents and school officials need to be aware of the poor judgment from certain teachers in charge of READING classes.

Reading teachers often use lyrics, and hearing the spoken words can be part of that. Reading is thinking, by the way. You can't read if you can't think and comprehend. Learning about differing types of writing...hence reading material..is important. Imagery, metaphors, figurative language etc., are often found in lyrics.

Again, the concern here is not the lyrics. It’s the very shallow video that the teacher played during instruction time. There’s an array of enriching material that can be used for reading comprehension and higher thinking skills. Maybe the reading teacher needs more training.

Perhaps if you're going to sit in on class, you should pay more attention. Not so you can judge and whine here, but to learn something. The teacher isn't the one who needs to be trained here.

Have fun in your ES class.

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Anonymous wrote:Was it a movement break? Did the lyrics have some type of figurative language? My 8th grade teacher played Alanis Morisette “Isn’t it ironic” when we learned about irony and printed the lyrics for us. No music video though but I’m sure your kids have seen teens kiss on tv before...

Maybe do like Taylor Swift says and calm down?!

Maybe you need to calm down. Watching an age appropriate movie on weekends is totally different from watching a music video during instruction time at school. Do your job and teach using age appropriate material.

I don’t bother using anything to fun and stick to the boring curriculum admin gives me so that I won’t get in trouble with admin and with parents with sticks up the arse like yourself... I’m sure you also come on here to say that your poor child is oh so bored in class? Like what do you want? Engagement (sharing things with kids connect with) or stuff that makes your child bored? Do tell.

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Anonymous wrote:WTF is wrong with a Taylor swift video? You don't think your kids have seen teenagers or adults kissing? If they haven't, that's sad.

It’s a READING class, not stupidity class.

Huh, I remember being in some super smart English class in high school and doing a poetry lesson that started with music each day, and then we'd read and talk about the lyrics.

I know nothing about this class and I know nothing about the music video. But in language arts, lyrics are often used to discuss figurative language and/or word choice. Again I know nothing about the specific lesson, but I do know that music is used at times.

With everything I've just said above, as an ES teacher, I try to avoid any videos where teenagers or adults interact in an intimate nature.

Omg. Teenagers kissing in a Taylor Swift video is NOT that salacious, the kids likely didn’t notice or care! Op is the only one scandalized but she has issues. If the kids were really analyzing lyrics for some literacy purpose as it’s 100% certain they were I doubt they looked at the video images much at all and if they did, again, kissing is not a taboo thing. Lord in heaven, some of uiu just need to homeschool if you think this is a problem. Sounds like OP has time .

I'm the PP. I should have clarified the reason why I avoid it is because there's always one parent every year that I'm sure will give me grief about it.

No. We should not be compromising on what we teach for people like OP. I can tie every single thing I do to standards and skills and content objectives. Op would be welcome to ask her child be moved out of my class but I wouldn’t change how I teach or apologize to her or do anything other than list the content objectives and tell her to have a great week.

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It’s interesting how defensive and aggressive people get when a parent post an inconvenient truth about a teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting how defensive and aggressive people get when a parent post an inconvenient truth about a teacher.

I’m not seeing that at all.

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OP: Do you have nothing better to do? Get over it. Homeschool the kid if you can't handle a 5th grader seeing people kiss. This is so ridiculous. No wonder there's a national teacher shortage.

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Anonymous wrote:What TS video was this?

Haha OP won’t answer because they know they overreacted.

Yep. 4 pages worth of questions, asking for details, and comments. Nothing from OP.

That’s incorrect. I’ve posted and you didn’t notice. Arguing with immature posters like you is not my goal here. Parents and school officials need to be aware of the poor judgment from certain teachers in charge of READING classes.

Reading teachers often use lyrics, and hearing the spoken words can be part of that. Reading is thinking, by the way. You can't read if you can't think and comprehend. Learning about differing types of writing...hence reading material..is important. Imagery, metaphors, figurative language etc., are often found in lyrics.

Again, the concern here is not the lyrics. It’s the very shallow video that the teacher played during instruction time. There’s an array of enriching material that can be used for reading comprehension and higher thinking skills. Maybe the reading teacher needs more training.

Omg, just name the video. Otheriwse you are not making a solid point. There is indeed an array of enriching material for reading comprehension, and higher thinking skils...those can include songs, videos of songs, and lyrics. Maybe the OP needs to be more specific, and name the video.

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Calm down, it's not like the teacher showed Cardi B's WAP video

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I really don’t think this is a big deal. T Swift is great, btw.

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This sounds like a fun way to get the kids engaged and could be a great lesson too. Taylor Swift is a songwriter who wrote hit songs when she was still a kid. Wholesome ones too. You don't think there are some good lessons there?

OP - lay off this teacher and just shut up.

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This is a common (and well received) teaching strategy — you should probably consider homeschooling.