Teacher Causes Outrage For Including Words “Po Pimp” In Assignment Apparently these parents DID NOT wanna ride in the back seat of a caddy, nor chop it up with Do or Die. Via WSBTV : Local parents told Channel 2 Action News that they were upset when their fourth-grader came home with a work sheet that included the words “Po Pimp.” Rapper Twista’s song, made nearly 20 years ago, is causing a stir in a local school system. Scott Tolleson went to the Newton County School Board this week after his fourth-grade son posed an unusual question: “What is po pimp? Try to explain to a fourth-grader what po pimp is,” said Tolleson. He says his son came home with a language arts assignment about sentence structure; in it is a passage about the rapper Twista and how he broke out thanks to the song. Tolleson says he looked up the lyrics to the song. “It was very upsetting to my family when we saw this. My wife was left in tears at the kitchen table,” Tolleson said. Tears? She’s certainly a sensitive one… However, the assignment itself didn’t actually include any of the song’s lyrics. It seems the teacher only asked students to identify the structure of a brief bio paragraph on Twista that included mention of the single that jump-started his career. Take a closer look: What do you think BOSSIP fam? Was the question fair or too foul for a fourth grader?
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Hip Hop 101? GA Parents Outraged Over 4th Grade Assignment Referencing Twista & Do or Die’s “Po Pimp”
