S.F. teachers urged to emulate Jimi Hendrix

[n2doc]

Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross
Monday, March 30, 2009


There was a time when teachers would freak at the sound of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" or "Stone Free." Now the San Francisco school district wants them to get in the spirit.

"Remember the first time you heard Jimi Hendrix?" reads the cover of the district's new 51-page education guide. "Our plan is as transformational now as his music was then!"

The manifesto is aimed at transforming the educational "experiences for every child in each of our schools."

To drive home the point, a portrait of the '60s rocker - looking somewhat pensive, somber and perhaps stoned - graces the cover and every page of the manual.

The book also comes with a Hendrix poster and Hendrix-emblazoned canvas bag, which were handed out to a couple hundred administrators at Superintendent Carlos Garcia's back-to-school confab in September.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/30/BAK616O8D8.DTL&tsp=1

[msongs]

1. emulate Jimi - legalize pot? nt

[livetohike]

2. If administrators would permit experimentation and innovation

(like Hendrix) instead of the strict rules and regulations that are passing for education now, that would be a good thing.

[LWolf]

7. The source of those rules and regs

don't spring from administrators.

They spring from the "standards and accountability" movement which birthed high stakes testing, NCLB, and standardization (and inevitable degrading) of public education.

When a district has one school that doesn't make AYP for a couple of years, the district must create a plan to "improve," which WILL include standardization of the district, or risk sanctions.

[MrPerson]

3. Scuse me while I Kiss This Guy.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Teach your classes behind your neck, with your teeth, then set them on fire

I dunno...somehow I'm missing the apples-to-apples conversion here.

:rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. OD on drugs and die too young?

[Catshrink]

6. I hope not -- Joplin, Morrison, Jimi, all died too young.

Here is his grave -- my parents and mom's family are buried across the lane on the left.