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[quote=Anonymous]Am I being a stuffy old lady?

Situation: a teacher of 8th grade English plays music while kids are working.  He shared his Spotify list ("Our Class Playlist") with the kids, and all the songs are rap, mostly by people I don't recognize, but a lot of Kanye.  This is the cool teacher who is an easy grader and who the kids love, so they are eager to listen to all his favorite music and to hear it in the classroom.  For those who don't. know this type of music, google the lyrics to Kanye West's "Dark Fantasy", which is one of the songs on the playlist.  I googled the lyrics of the other artists/songs on his list and most of them have similar language and content.  All the same musical genre, too.

I just...that kind of content and language really rubs me the wrong way when I consider that he's given the list to 8th graders, that he plays those songs for them in class.  I know a lot of them probably listen to that kind of music on their own, but would you be upset if this was your 13 year old kid's teacher?[/quote]

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