Post by Adam B on Mar 3, 2011 7:47:43 GMT -5
Unless you were the captain of the football team, there’s a good chance you don’t have greatest associations with the word “school.” There’s a growing group of schools, however, where all the students are happy, and that’s because of instead of rocking gym shorts, and backpacks full of textbooks, they’re rocking out. This is the story of School of Rock.
School of Rock is the creation of Paul Green, a musician and teacher who, in 1998, while teaching in Philadelphia, turned his class of students into a band. It worked so well that the idea for School of Rock was born. Now, 13 years later, there are over 60 School of Rock schools across the US and one in Mexico.
I caught up with Terry Longhway, who owns six School of Rock franchises in the US, and Kristin Leigh, who has been the General Manager of multiple School of Rock schools, to find out more about the program, what it provides students other than musical instruction, and what a series of video games, and government cuts to our schools’ arts programs, have done for their enrollment.
Read the full story at: substreammusicpress.com/Company-Profiles/school-of-rock-in-depth-interview.html