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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday April 01 2017, @05:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the secession-is-my-obsession-fightin'-oppression dept.

[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


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @06:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @06:00PM (#487683)

    I mean, sure why not? There was Schoolhouse Rock when I was growing up. I love all the comments dumping on this as some kind of Politically Correctness thing.

    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.

    That's what counts, isn't it?

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