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Middle School Teacher Suspended For Assigning Homework Featuring Rapper's Explicit Lyrics

GEORGIA (CBS) -- A middle school teacher in Georgia has been suspended for assigning inappropriate homework.

The homework featured explicit lyrics by rapper Kodak Black.

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The exercise was for 6th graders to take the lyrics and come up with their own positive words.

"I saw it, and I was like my mom would be mad," said 6th grader Kalani Wright.

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Her mom was not pleased.

"She's not in my house so she doesn't know how we run things. So to push something she felt appropriate, I had a problem with that," said mother Crishana Wright.

School officials say they encourage teacher creativity, but instruction must be age-appropriate.

The teacher has issued an apology saying she should have used better judgment.

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