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