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 The
Boston
Globe reviews a documentary called "Rock
School"about the real-life
"School of Rock" and the failed-musician-turned-teacher
who was portrayed by Jack Black in the Hollywood version.
We are tempted to actually break down and pay to see this movie in
the theater. The subject is a successful and increasingly wealthy teacher
who
has managed to establish and franchise schools based on the teaching methodology
of yelling profanities at the students until they break down in tears.
At one point an enraged and possessed Paul Green, the model
for Black’s Dewey Finn, yells at one terrified, obtuse student ”I
will kill
your family and bathe in their blood." The kids may not love it, but
their parents do, undoubtedly wishing they had thought of it first.
This seems like a promising teaching methodology and we are thinking
of applying for a job. The article says, "There are Paul Green Schools
of Rock in nine locations, including New York, San Francisco, and Salt
Lake City (Salt Lake City?)." As far as we know, there is no Paul Green
School of Rock in Boston, but after the winter we have just been through,
we are leaning more toward Maui.
Our Rock ‘n Roll credentials are impeccable. Despite being
almost completely tone-deaf, we were a member of a seminal Punk band
in the late 1970’s in Austin, Texas, called "The Decomposers". In
our only gig, we actually decomposed on stage. Austin was a great city
back then, and we hear it still is. We would even consider opening our
School of Rock franchise there, if our legal advisor assures us that the
statute of limitations has expired on everything that happened the last
time we passed through….
(We used a stock photo of Sam Kinnison to illustrate this article instead
of Jack Black because Kinnison should have been the star of "School of
Rock", and would have been if he hadn’t been dead ten years.)
review from the Boston Globe
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