You wouldn’t normally associate a posh British School with rap music, but somebody did, and now the PTA is calling crisis meetings.

Rapper Stefflon Don hired out Mill Hill School to film the video for ‘Pretty Girl’. To give you some context, if you want to attend the British private school get ready to drop £30 000 a year on tuition.

That’s R555 694, which is just a little more than the tuition for our very own African Leadership Academy.

Needless to say, a school that costs that much to attend must have a bit of prestige, so they weren’t thrilled when the video came out.

Sky News reports that Mill Hill has apologised for the video, which “features English rapper Stefflon Don swearing, showering and appearing to smoke marijuana”.

Governors are investigating who signed off the agreement and how the “highly inappropriate” film was allowed to be made at the school.

A representative for the 26-year-old artist from Birmingham has been contacted for comment but none had been received at the time of publishing.

Whoever signed off on this either really wanted to be cool with the kids, or has never seen a rap video before.

Either way, Someone is going to be kicked out of the country club.

The video shows Stefflon Don arriving at a new school and being targeted by bullies.

She is accepted when she pours chemicals into their beaker at a science lesson and later at a football match when she launches a sweary tirade at a girl she accuses of diving.

Other scenes include her rapping into the camera surrounded by bubbles in a shower, and sharing what appears to be marijuana with friends in a dormitory.

Mill Hill admitted the school had been hired, but stressed all deals require that “parties should not bring the school into dispute”.

“We are seeking legal advice on the matter,” a spokesperson confirmed to Sky News.

Permission for location shooting is only to raise money for the school “in accordance with its charitable objectives”, it said, adding: “We sincerely apologise for the offence caused and will ensure that this does not happen again.”

Without further ado, here’s what caused all the fuss:

The school got a verbal lashing from Chris McGovern, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education:

“The message being sent by this video popularises everything which good schools should be against – drug-taking, swearing, and overt sexuality.

“These are all things which schools should be trying to guide pupils away from, not promoting them. Parents who are paying the fees for their children to go there will be appalled.”

Appalled indeed. Even the headmistress has resigned, and the school says it has nothing to do with the video.

A likely story.

[source:skynews]