Parents livid after 8th graders read Ice Cube ‘pimps and hoes’ lyrics for English assignment

Parents livid after 8th graders read Ice Cube ‘pimps and hoes’ lyrics for English assignment - EAGnews.org:

FLORENCE, Ariz. – An Arizona middle school teacher was sent home after parents complained about a poetry assignment featuring profanity laced lyrics from Ice Cube’s 1990 gangsta rap “Who’s the Mack?”
“What the hell was he thinking?”
Carrie Scott, parent of an eighth-grader in the Florence Unified School District language arts class, told CBS 6.
“It was horrifying. It was a nightmare. How do you grade this? How do you grade a 13-year-old talking about sexual requests for money?”

The news site reports that an unidentified language arts teacher played the music video for “Who’s the Mack?” for students recently and sent them home with the lyrics and an assignment to identify similes, metaphors and other poetic elements.

Parent Sam Washburn called 12 News to highlight the assignment he found in his daughter’s backpack because, although words like f*** were blacked out, other offensive language and themes of prostitution, drug use, domestic violence, sex acts in the song really made him mad.

“You just kind of take for granted your 13-year-old daughter’s got curriculum at school that’s appropriate for school and come to find out that’s not the case at all,” Washburn said.

His daughter, Spencer Washburn, told the news site she completed the worksheet to avoid a bad grade, but felt violated by the assignment.

“I am in student council, and I would not want to get kicked out,” she said.

...Teachers submit lesson plans for review a week in advance, he said, and the teacher’s did not include the Ice Cube assignment.

CBS 6 did not identify the teacher, but said it was his first year in the district.
He’s now at home waiting for district officials to decide his fate...”