I have two rules for the folks that write at GraniteGrok:
- Rule #1: Adult themes, kid friendly
I do not want to hear that Janie and Johnny ran to their parents and asked “Mommy, what does this mean?” and then the parents come to me and ask “Oh REALLY!!!”
- Rule #2: Write when you can on stuff you want to, just don’t violate Rule #1.
Apparently, even before I can get all the videos up from Cornerstone’s sold out event, some Common Core materials are already sending fourth grade kiddies to Mommy and Daddy over their homework assignment:
“What’s a pimp?“
Yup, in the continued Progressive march to completely ruin a child’s innocence (because having a kindergartner knowing all about sexual health and practices is just so more more important than those lazy strait-laced parents clinging to old-fashioned repressive bigoted Biblical standards) who are putting off “the talk” until some out-dated notion of “being ready”.
It’s the kind of children’s question most parents don’t look forward to answering.
But when Brittney Badeaux’s nine-year-old son came home from school the other day asking what a “pimp” is, imagine her surprise that her fourth-grader was introduced to the term — and other eye-opening ones — through a worksheet from his elementary school.
The assignment from Eaton Park Elementary in Abbeville, La., focuses on how related words are used in a real-world context; one of the five entries details the term “Twista”:
Carl Terrell Mitchell, better known by his stage name Twista, was born in 1972. Nineteen years later Mitchell’s first album, “Runnin’ Off at da Mouth,” debuted. In 1997, after appearing on Do or Die’s hit “Po Pimp,” Twista was signed to Atlantic Records. Under that label he released “Adrenaline Rush” and formed the group Speedknot Mobstaz in 1998. His 2004 album Kamikaze went to number-one in the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart.
“My son doesn’t know what pimps and mobstaz are!” Badeaux writes in an email to KPEL-FM. “I try to teach my son respect and morals.”
Right – rap is SUCH a character building mode of music – objectifying and bullying (I thought schools were against those things)? And when Brittney went to complain, well of COURSE the weaselly Superintenddent Jerome Puyau was all for pushing off responsibility for this as”Hey, this isn’t MY fault” and then goes to the
Sidenote: if you listen to the Cornerstone videos, this very thing is discussed!
“little kid defense” of stating we’re not the only ones! Right – so schools should just follow along because stores can sell filth and make a profit – good to know, Super!
So, you STILL don’t think that a school is going to trample all over what morals and standards you are trying to teach your kids? Hahahahahaha….
(H/T: The Blaze)
