A Connecticut Town Must Pay $100,000 To A Family Because A Middle School Teacher Showed A Kendrick Lamar Music Video In Class

So the way this story goes is that an 8th grade Social Studies teacher in Connecticut showed an episode of a documentary called “Songs that Shook America,” which featured Lamar’s song “Alright". The video depicts Police Officers are murderers, and so one of the students, whose dad is a cop, suffered from the following after the video:

PTSD, anxiety, depression, shock, confusion, sadness, and social withdrawal, among other psychological injuries, because of the 45-minute-long video. These have manifested into physical symptoms like nausea and headache

I will now, live as I blog this, go watch this music video for the very first time and determine if this is worth $100,000 of emotional distress, or if someone is pulling the old Uno reverse card on the woke libs and suing them for hurting someone's feelings.

One second:

I mean, what the fuck are we doing here….. So many thoughts.

1. What a DUMB fucking teacher. In what world do you show that video in middle school? In any school? And apparently, the teacher had been disciplined twice for breaking school guidelines on what to show in class. I will hold my judgement on the 100K for another second or two, but this teacher should be fired, not for the video but for being an absolute moron

2. Let me be very clear: I think (and know from personal experience in the classroom) that it is VERY HARD to be a son / daughter of a Police Officer these days. It's truly awful how the narrative surrounding those that serve and protect us is that they're all bad people. And then when these 12-14 year olds hear it from their parents, it gets put on display in the classroom in a much louder and much meaner and much less educated way. Kids are mean….and kids don't have any grasp on what the Police do for us, because they're 12-14. So yes, I do feel for this kid. I am certain he got picked on because his dad was a cop, and that's terrible. 

3. 100K is fucking crazy. Some full grown adults have to work 2-3 years to make 100K, and this family got it because their son's Social Studies teacher put on a music video that they didn't like? I might need to start suing people if this is the going rate for something like this.

With all that being said, what happened to this country? I'm not sue whether I'm most embarrassed that we're showing these music videos in school, that we're suing teachers for how they teach in school, or that this music video is popular thing and people enjoy that / think like that?