Michelle Malkin paints a stark image of traditional cultural values being flushed down the toilet as government schools continue to come up with strange, demeaning and counterproductive educational fads.
A bunch of bureaucrats decided it would be a great idea to expose students to the “poetry” of the late Tupac Shakur, the “[D]rug-dealing, baseball bat-wielding, cop-hating, Black Panthers-worshiping, convicted sexual abuser who made a fortune extolling the ‘thug life’ before he was gunned down in Las Vegas eight years ago.”
A school board member in Palm Beach County, Fla., is also championing Shakur’s so-called literary work. Debra Robinson lobbied to bring Shakur’s book into the classroom last month because “I always think we need to capture the children’s attention where they are and bring them to where they need to be.”
The presumption that children — and particularly inner-city children — can only be stimulated by the contemporary and familiar smacks of lazy elitism and latent racism. These educators, and I use that term as loosely as gangster rappers wear their pants, are clearly more interested in appearing cool than in inculcating a refined literary sense in students. Their aim is not enlightenment but dumbed-down ghetto entertainment. So that teachers and pupils can “relate” and be “down with that.” So they can “keep it real.” You know what I’m sayin’?
So sad that impressionable children have to be subjected to politically correct nonsense like this. Where are the parents?
If I’m ever blessed with children, I’d sacrifice everything — cars, house, clothes, retirement — to send them to private schools if we couldn’t afford it. Either that or I’d strive to be the best homeschooling Mom this side of the Mississippi.
