[Edwards Middle School teacher David] Yancey, 31, has been teaching at the school for eight years, and while he's always had a passion for educating, when he realized his students were struggling to understand government, he had to find a new way to help them retain each lesson.
"Students have always hated social studies since the dawn of time," Yancey told NBC News in an email. "I realized that students almost choose to be disconnected from the material. In an attempt to bridge the gap, I chose to ask my mentoring group 'What songs are in right now?'"
[...] In videos posted on YouTube, Yancey is seen rapping his own lyrics along to Migos' "Bad and Boujee," which he tweaked to "Mad and Losing," and devoted to a lesson about General Ulysses S. Grant and the Civil War.
[...] While Yancey isn't completely sure if the raps have improved his students' grades, he said some of his former pupils have told him they still remember his lyrics years later and are able to put them to use.
Rapping Teacher Turns Social Studies Lessons Into Songs
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday April 01 2017, @05:52PM (1 child)
Here's another one [youtube.com].
Rap is for rappers. Teachers should teach. Priest should preach. If the targeted audience can't be interested in something for its own value, turning it into shitty rap ain't going to make that something more interesting. It's just pandering to the lowest common denominator.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @06:26PM
Rappers gonna rap
Teachers gonna teach
Crappers gonna crap
Preachers gonna preach