A recent article posted by Gengis Khan titled, Education Set To Hip Hop Beats A Success caught my attention. The article talks about how Hip Hop is being used to help educate elementary school kids. Teaching them mathematics, science, and geography through rapping and rhythm. This reminded me of another article posted a while back by GG Content about a Hip Hop High School. The school was hoping to make learning more attractive to teens by teaching them with textbooks with Hip Hop based titles like "Back In The Days" and "Yes Yes Ya'll". Global Grind users seemed to be unanimously in favor of this idea, as Anthony put it "I think that infusing hip hop into school is a great idea. Hip hop is a cultural phenomenon and many teens are influenced by it. If teachers can effectively tie in hip hop to studies, then students could become more interested, become motivated to do there work, and learn more then they normally would."
This is an excellent point, but is there anyone out there who would be opposed to this? If you asked your child "What did you learn in school today?", and they started rapping and dancing, how would you feel? I know a lot of Hip Hop has at times been very educational. Public Enemy taught Black history in their songs, KRS-One always had a thing for politics, and Canibus might as well be a college professor with his scientific theories and equations, but does Hip Hop belong in the classroom?
Is this the future of public education, or just a trend that will eventually pass? -Kapital One