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School Sued For Kendrick Video

June 14, 2024
A Connecticut town settled a lawsuit after an 8th-grade teacher played Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” video in class, causing one student “emotional distress.”
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Vernon, Connecticut has agreed to pay a family $100,000 after showing Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” music video to eighth-grade students. In a 2022 lawsuit, a student’s parents claimed that the video caused their...
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A Connecticut town has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit
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after 1/8 grade school teacher played Kendrick Lamar's all music video in
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class. What song is that?
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The We gonna be?
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All right. Da da da da da da.
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Ok, cool. Making sure that's the one.
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All right. So the lawsuit claimed the videos negative portrayal of
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police called emotional distress to a police officer's son who has a
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learning disorder. The family did receive $100,000 in a settlement and
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had to move schools which helped pay for the new school's tuition
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The teacher was warned in the past for playing inappropriate videos
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to their students. So who's,
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who's to blame here?
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Well, at first I didn't get the whole information and I
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was like, well,
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I mean, at the end of the day,
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that's life like, like you're gonna,
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you're gonna see things like that,
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you know, in real life like where are you going to
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sue, you know,
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and go out or did they did it for money?
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You know, you say.
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But then now seeing that the teacher has been warned in the
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past, it's like,
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and just kind of got slaps on the wrist again.
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He, he's played inappropriate videos in the past but like,
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as you know, he's in eighth grade,
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I remember in eighth grade,
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like, we had to,
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like, sign slips.
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If it was like a rated R,
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like a teenage, he's probably,
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I mean, in honesty.
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Ok, great. I feel like they,
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they are prone to other crazier stuff that maybe because I don't
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have a kid that I like,
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that's why I'm like,
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I don't, I don't think it was a big deal for
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it because I feel like I had a cousin that my would
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never let him watch,
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like, rated PG 13 and like that words.
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But then it's like,
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then those could go,
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I don't know. Hopefully,
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at least the teacher has a backup or the new teacher has
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a backup for Bill Nye videos because if not,
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they're going to listen to what,
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Lin Manuel and his,
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like, cringy ass musical.
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Anyways, women though.
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You're cool. But you just call him crazy brother.
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His raps. That was kind of cool.
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I guess he's done some cool stuff.
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But anyhoo. Yeah.
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So, what do you guys think?