Kanye West slams US cost of education
Updated | By MornéJK
Kanye West has called for teachers in the US to be paid more and slammed the cost of school text books in his latest Twitter rant.
The 38-year-old rapper - who last weekend claimed he owes $53 million in bills - has taken to Twitter to demand education be made cheaper in America after revealing one of his pals earns $370 a day but has to fork out $400 for one school text book for her child.
Kanye - who has two children, daughter North, two, and two-month-old son Saint with wife Kim Kardashian West - wrote in a Twitter rant: "I have a friend who works really hard and makes $370 dollars a day...
"Her son just got in a really good school and his textbooks are like $400 dollars each ...
"I mean, his mom has to work 2 days just to afford 1 book for her son ...
Steve Jobs wanted to lower the cost of textbooks…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 16, 2016
"Steve Jobs wanted to lower the cost of textbooks...
"Education puts Americans into debt before they even get a chance to get started...
"We have to lower the price of textbooks...
"I'd rather teachers got paid more and books cost less ... #2020 (sic)"
I mean, his mom has to work 2 days just to afford 1 book for her son …
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 16, 2016
The 'Bound 2' hitmaker made the announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards last year, and shortly afterwards current President Barack Obama gave him a few words of advice.
Appearing to refer to Kanye's reality TV star wife Kim, he said: "In case Kanye's serious about this whole POTUS thing, or as he calls it, Peezy, I do have advice for him;
"You've got to deal with strange characters who behave as if they are on a reality TV show. So you've got to be cool with that."
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