Well, just as long as they don't teach Ebonics

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<p>Interesting choice for Portland.
[Portland</a> School District staff recommend approval of hip hop-focused charter school | Oregon Education - OregonLive.com](<a href=“http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2009/10/portland_school_district_staff.html]Portland”>Portland School District staff recommend approval of hip hop-focused charter school - oregonlive.com)</p>

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<p>Sounds like an music and performing arts school. Cool.</p>

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<p>Portland has been more flexible with their district than Seattle- they seem much more responsive to the community.</p>

<p>I just found it funny cause while my younger daughter was involved with hip hop dance when she was attending high school in the " inner city", Portland by contrast is the whitest city in the US.</p>

<p>I expect it will be very popular.</p>

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<p>Super. That’s what’s keeping black students from performing up to their peers from other ethnic groups…not enough hip-hop. And how else would kids learn hip-hop dancing and singing if it wasn’t taught to them in the schools? I look forward to Harvard starting a Ph.D. program in the use of the word “mother******.” Chomsky?</p>

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<p>Way to generalize an entire genre of music and scapegoat it as a reason for oppression.</p>

<p>That said, interesting idea</p>

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<p>Hopefully it’s more of the old-skool jamz…</p>

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<p>how come we don’t have something like this in Seattle?
LL Cool J, Blue Scholars,Common Market et al. are from here and I am sure there are lots that I don’t know about.
( ok that is rhetorical- cause Seattle doesn’t have charter schools and we do our best to shut down any new ideas)</p>