Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. There could be important skills learned from this, even if just listening to the lyrics. And if there was no underlying lesson, who cares? Was your kid unhappy?

And here we go with the “who cares?” This is why the elementary education is declining.

Anonymous wrote:Seriously? This is an upper ES reading class where students are supposed to use texts for deeper understanding and the teacher is supposed to teach strategies for reading comprehension. The video shows teens kissing on the car.
Now we can see how hard some teachers work to rise the quality of our children’s education.

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You would hate my lesson Tupac's lyrics, OP.

This is ridiculous. There could be important skills learned from this, even if just listening to the lyrics. And if there was no underlying lesson, who cares? Was your kid unhappy?

My daughter's teacher plays a music video as a signal to the the kids that they are almost done with their independent work. I think it's brilliant--for kids who have finished early it's something to watch and enjoy rather than have them wander away from their computers, and for kids who are still working it's a signal to start wrapping up in the next 2-3 minutes in a way that doesn't feel like a demand to hurry up. I honestly haven't paid attention to what she's showing but she's not an idiot, so I'm guessing it's nothing objectionable.

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Anonymous wrote:PPs sound very immature.

Yeah emailing that you are horrified by Taylor Swift is the height of maturity. Don’t some of you have jobs?

You seem to need a reading comprehension course.

Anonymous wrote:PPs sound very immature.

Yeah emailing that you are horrified by Taylor Swift is the height of maturity. Don’t some of you have jobs?

PPs sound very immature.

Anonymous wrote:Agree with your concern. Reach out to teacher. Song is one thing but video is another.

A Taylor Swift music video is as innocuous as it gets. Y’all need a hobby.

Anonymous wrote:I would understand if they use just the lyrics, but this was just a stupid video that teaches nonsense.

Nah. Sounds like you didn’t understand what she was doing. At worst, she played a music video for a brain break. Hardly a crime. At best, she found a way to using music to teach a skill like so many other teachers have done as you can see in this thread. Go take a walk. You’re mad and this is a stupid thing to take it out on.

Agree with your concern. Reach out to teacher. Song is one thing but video is another.

I would understand if they use just the lyrics, but this was just a stupid video that teaches nonsense.

Anonymous wrote:My HS English teacher used Iggy POP lyrics for some lessons.

Mine used Jackson Browne.

Anonymous wrote:My HS English teacher used Iggy POP lyrics for some lessons.

That’s amazing!

Anonymous wrote:Um I have done this. In a mini lesson it can be helpful to show how a reading or literary technique is used in something familiar, like a song. I have used lyrics to practice as a group identifying imagery and all kinds of things with kids before having them do it in a text. It activates background knowledge and engages them before you apply it independently in a text. It’s a good instructional technique. Get a life and let her teach.

This. My kids have used lyrics to find examples of idioms, similes, metaphors, etc.

Sounds like you have a keeper!