San Francisco education reform: Be like Jimi Hendrix
Reason number 99,997,678 to homeschool your kids, via the SFChronicle:
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.
Just what your kid needs: Government teachers pimping drug-addled rock stars as transformational heroes.
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The question I have would be to transform it to WHAT?
Think the teachers will mention that Hendrix died in his own vomit. Is that an educational goal they want the kids to obtain?
Can we just build a wall around San Francisco & surrounds? There has yet to be a graduate of any of their schools who is not a potential danger to our country! Can you say “Johnny Lindh”?
Who? Some kind of Boomer deity?
Well, I guess that’s better than having Che on the cover.
He was also a veteran – 101st…
Just sayin’
I am old enough to have listened to the 60’s music, and I NEVER listened to his music. He was almost as bad as Joplin. Home school your kids if you can.
L
He was actually a genius. I’m not defending drug use…
I will stand for a lot and I will endure many arrows slung my way. I will not, however, countenance calling Jimi Hendrix a “drug-addled rock star.”
Amy Winehouse is a drug-addled rock star.
Trent Reznor is a drug-addled rock star.
Jimi Hendrix was a drug-addled rock SUPERstar.
Purple Haze would seem like a perfect theme song for the modern public school.
Hendrix was a genius, this is true – but a role model?
He’s a complete disaster as a role model. Other than an amazing musical talent, what part of his life would you want your kids to emulate?
He died basically alone. For all of his sexual exploits there is no woman who can truly say that they had anything like a real relationship with him (although many have claimed it). He had few, if any, actual friends. Plenty of hangers-on, but friends?
As was said here, Hendrix lived a drug-hazed existence, largely alone in a crowd.
What a complete disaster as a role model.
I’m talking about the music, not the drug stuff.
L
I’m pretty sure the SF school district’s curriculum was drafted by junkies and flakes on many psychedelic drugs. Far out, man!
Many artists were stark raving luntics, drug users, or drunks. I don’t know why that is true but it is.
Not claiming this is gospel, but:
wikipedia states Jimi’s entrance into the Army was due to facing jail time. Also states his service was sub-par.
The fact that you would compare him to Janis Joplin of all people indicates to me you may not be the best judge of music; at least not classic rock. That’s like comparing Mozart to Salieri.
So was Murtha, not exactly proof of quality. That being said, Hendrix was an excellent musician, but not a superstar or a god. Isn’t that enough? I also think Janis Joplin absolutely owns “Bobby Magee.” But that was her one big accomplishment.
Just my $0.02.
He is/was undeniably a superstar.
He served with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam. He showed up and that’s what counts.
A tragic waste of artistic talent.
You don’t know that. Coulda been someone else’s vomit.
He certainly was/is that.
Yes, Hendrix’ talent with a guitar is unquestioned. But his use as a role model? A guy who died at 27 years old after an overdose of sleeping pills mixed with alcohol? C’mon, people.
From the quote, and those to whom the materials were given, I think they wanted him to be a role model for the Administrators – which in SF might be a step up.
Seriously. A good role model should be able to down like 35-40 before passing out.
I will take Hendrix over any rapper who ever lived.
You’re claiming Janis Joplin poisened Jimi Hendrix? (Some of you may need to Google for this…)
Spent most of Jimi’s time in Nam. When I heard his stuff back in the US of A I bought the biggest speakers I could and loved that music. Thought his Hey Joe & All along the Watchtower was genius. Then he died in the stupid way. As said before “no role model” and have concluded if he was a genius he would still be singin.
Does look good on a poster.
I recognize your brand of sarcasm from previous postings, but it also helps to illustrate the point (I think; these posts tend to go astray) that drug addled rock stars, regardless of talent level, should not be the role models for schoolchildren.
Otherwise, rock on.
Well, ’scuse me while I kiss this guy.
Sorry, but Hendrix’s music was not “transformational.” Hendrix was one of the greatest electric guitarists to ever live and by far the most naturally talented one I ever saw (and I saw all of his contemporaries and him twice). But a lot of his music sucked and his music didn’t come anywhere close to having the influence that the music of Cream and then Led Zeppelin had.
Nice, Rufus.
Ok…..you KNOW I have to comment….
This guy was my ‘guitar hero’.
I never got into drugs.
I don’t drink.
I never smoked.
That guy kept me out of trouble.
I’d come home from school, do my homework, grab my guitar, and put Jimi on the turntable.
I’ve read a lot of biographies on this man, and it’s been stated by many who knew him personally that he was a gentlemen, he was generous to a fault, and was somewhat quiet and shy offstage. However, I’ve also read numerous anecdotes that made me realize that he was human and far from perfect.
Some stories even had me thinking: “What a jerk!”
His music is an acquired taste, I’ll agree to that.
But the man WAS talented, and played the guitar like no one else.
He burned out too soon.
Lastly, he did not die of a drug overdose. But choking to death on your own vomit is not a dignified exit.
I’m not sure what the point of using Jimi in this ‘manifesto’ is….
But I’d bet money that somewhere, Jimi is wondering the same thing.
No silly. I am claiming one of them was a devout Catholic and one of them was a coprophiliac.
can we do this after i sell my flat in sf?
Thanks, Speakeasy.
Also, I for one believe Mr. Hendrix was a victim of socialized medicine. Since he died in London.
He’s my role model. I’ve been trying for the last 36 years to die when I’m 27.
Of course the geniuses that get clean die young too (SRV) and the geniuses that never did drugs don’t live forever either (Zappa).
When asked for further comment, the SF School District then quoted from Purple Haze. “Excuse me, while I kiss this guy!”
Say what??? Please explain.
because it worked out so well for Mr. Hendrix.
Do you think the SF school district has an intent of talking about his service in any positive way?
Not
A
Chance
Ah shoot, sorry Rufus, I missed your post, you nailed it first.
I don’t know if this would work in LA. This is more of a Jim Morrison town. At least he ended up in Paris.
Now there is a REAL overrated drug addled rock star.
I had my first *blushing* experience as a pre-pubescent watching Jimi Hendrix playing his guitar. At the time, I didn’t know WHAT that was, but I liked it.
Still, point taken: we don’t need a bunch of *blushing* students.
The problem here is not so much that Hendrix is touted as a “transformational figure” for schoolchildren but that he is already a role model for the school board. Yikes!
Of course, you can’t dust for vomit.
Well I suppose a Catholic (A real one not a Nazi-Pelosi one).. in San Fransico can just tell St. Peter when he/she dies.. “Not Thanks” to going to Purgatory. “I lived in San Fransico..and I get “Time Served” status and go directly to heaven.”
May ALL Liberals Be like Jimi Hendrix:
DEAD:
yes he could play a guitar-so can I-not as well as old Jimmi when he was alive but better than he can now.
Score ONE for the Brits. Bill Maher thinking of going to London?
superstars have to last more than 3 years. it’s like a radio station here in st louis which plays beatles tunes constantly. ok, i liked the beatles, but 24/7 beatles is like 5 minutes of opera or lance armstrong’s ex squeeze (i purposefully block her name, because her nasal whine can send me over the edge in nanoseconds)
First thought that came to my mind. I think what the lefties mean by being an example is for our youth to somehow kill themselves or their unborn children, preferably with drugs, at an early age to save the planet from their carbon footprint.
Bill Maher thinks?
His music certainly has. Buddy Holly’s career was half as long.
Aw, c’mon, cheapseat…I love the Beatles. I just can’t stand McCartney.
Maybe this is the type of school lgm can teach at.
Anyway, they could just listen to Prince & Lenny Kravitz’s lovechild—it’s just Hendrix dusted off & redone.
(BTW, I think Prince should carry the child).
Sounds par for the course to me. It’s much easier to fool, dupe, cajole, and control those whose sole purpose in life is vegging. If they get unhappy, supply some drugs, free music and condoms, and suddenly it’s “all good!”
Socialism’s goal is to control the masses, by all means available.
Hendrix didn’t learn how to be a Stratocaster virtuoso in public school.
Cripes, if this place must emulate anyone it should be Captain BeefHeart.
stillontheroad—BWAHAHAHA
spoken like a true diehard. Do I know you?
I’m looking for a genie.
First wish: Give every liberal a home in San Francisco.
Second wish: Build an impenetrable wall 500 ft high all the way around San Francisco, with no gates or doors.
Third wish: Fill it with water.
Nope Rufus, but pleased to meet you. perhaps we met on the ViaDuck lol
Musically he was transformational.
He was never as dangerous as Bill Ayers.
How about a transformation to teaching ONLY reading, writing, math, and some science (physics, chemistry, biology). (I’d have included history and geography but both of those are so contorted these days the kids wouldn’t learn any facts).
If schools did only the above, I’m sure test scores would go up and more importantly, critical thinking skills would rise.
OT
Obama seeks Muslims to work in administration.
Just because, you know, diversity, I guess.
sorry all – lgm disproves my last statement…I retract it.
It’s all Yoko’s fault!
No, but oddly enough, I believe he went to the same High School as Quincy Jones (different times). Maybe the cafeteria food helped produce fine musicians.
Was it near the wire fence?
“Oh no, I’m not going through that again!”
Sorry – “Duh” moment for me…
I just looked it up. Eeeeewwww!
Some things are better left unknown.
Does this exist outside of John Waters’ movies? And I’m scared that you know if it does, chap.
Have any Federal authorities ever checked out the water supply in San Francisco?
If there are any Federal authorities in Frisco, they are all graduates of Humbolt State.
Sure, Hendrix effed up and died at a young age, but he was a patriotic American. If the twits in SF realize that it’ll be the end of that curriculum.
For better or worse, Jimi was a man of his times. Many of his rock-star colleagues also used drugs (not exactly news, I know). Back then, there wasn’t as much education about the harmful effects, so Jimi ended up being Exhibit A.
It was actually an overdose of sleeping pills that caused him to choke on his own vomit. One of his girlfriends indicated that Jimi intended to sleep through the weekend. He certainly got that!
Am I the only one who is relieved it’s not the posterized photo of Obama and his spewings that they’re transforming the schools with???
I think Jimi is a step up from hussein.
Not that it won’t all lead to the same place, but jus’ sayin’…
I think I need to start this day over.
Hendrix was ahead of his time. That being said, I never held him up to my kids as an example except as the greatest guitar player ever and an idiot for ending his life the way he did when he could have been so much more.
So what did Bob Marley do to get thrown out of being worshipped?
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Kids, here is your helpful heavy drugusers tidbit of the day…. when in a comatose state and puking, try to rely on a friend to turn you over – not sit you up and strap you in to an ambulance. Aspirating vomitus is not the way you want to be remembered, nor is being found face down in front of the toilet. Just sayin’
lol just read dans post…
Which chapter will cover the plaster caster episode?
This is pelosi country!
Any surprise why she is who she is?
Blinding Hypocrisy! On one hand, here they are encouraging REAL diversity – individual ACHIEVEMENT, (not that Jimi’s ultimate achievement of dying young was a very good example but no one would disagree that in music he was indeed a trail blazer).
Individualism is something I highly advocate myself though there are better examples throughout history to be had, (like Galileo fighting the wide consensus that the earth was flat for example).
But then they turn around and STIFLE individual achievement, stifle diversity with homogenized, march to the beat of the SLOWEST drummer, public education where gifted children rarely stand a chance of ever realizing the extent of their God given talent.
I can’t figure them out, liberals speak with forked tongues.
I’ve been smiling all day just thinking about that first time….
Why can’t the people who advocate this stuff follow Jimi’s lead before they have a chance to screw up children?
Hendrix’ talent doesn’t have to be re-described but his throwing it all away for dope should be. Once again, the left shows it’s affinity for the ’60’s and a refusal to let go. I think these people just can’t get used to simple things like responsibility and honest work so they make those things a crime.
But hey, one day, maybe the Libs who spout this nonsense will do the world a favor and OD like Jimi (actually a “Mamma Cass” incident would be better, the ham sandwich would shut them up). That would prove Darwin right once and for all.
“To prepare society for psychological control, the very soul of the individual must be destroyed in its youth by disturbing it with evil via forced schooling and media.” ~ György Lukács
“A quiet revolution can be dispersed throughout a culture over a period of time to destroy it from within. Mass psychology and media can break the traditions, beliefs and morals and the will of a nation so there is no possibility of resistance.” ~ Antonio Gramsci
“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” ~ Antonio Gramsci
“The civilized world has been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2,000 years and a culture based on this religion could only be captured from within. By winning cultural hegemony, men could be made to love their servitude.” ~Antonio Gramsci
Here people talk about what a bold stand they are taking by attending a Tea Party. How about taking a bold stance by removing your children from state-run education? How about turning off the television, or *gasp* throwing the thing out, for a change? Like most Christians who think they are bold for wearing a tshirt with some lyrics on it, most “conservatives” don’t have the slightest clue what we’re up against nor how to combat it.
Two Girls, 1 Cup anybody?
Sounds like someone needs to get a room
In the sake of TMI, just how many times have you relived that today?? (rhetorical
)
Yeah, he died choking on his own vomit, but that was due to the malpractice of the French ambulance drivers. See now what the cost of socialized medicine is? Let’s face it, as a role model, no dice. But as the author of the best ever 12 bar blues song ever written (Red House), he can teach my kids to play guitar any day. Er, if he didn’t look worse than the Crypt-keeper after a weekend bender by now. But if he were alive…!
Johnny Winter is still alive, thought he seems somewhat shaky.
For my money, he was at least the equal of Jimi Hendirx.
…though
the seems….Can some one please explain howhe isa role model for education?
While I liked and appreciated Jimi’s work, he couldn’t carry Johnny Winter’s jock. Tru bloos dat!
Loved the music of Hendrix, Joplin, and Morison. But they are bad examples for children to emulate.
The ones in London?
I saw Hendrix twice and Winter half a dozen times, both in their prime. I’d say Hendrix was a level above Winter and I can find you a hundred professional guitarists who would agree. But then taste in music is also subjective, so which is “better” is more a matter of opinion than anything else.
BTW, RandyS, Hendrix died in Notting Hill — London.