In the November 17 edition of Time Magazine (with OVEREXPOSED Jessica Lynch on the cover. . .) there is an article about David Wish, 36, a music teacher from New Jersey who, well, here are some relevant parts of the article (re-printed without permission of course):

" 'We rock at 7:30 sharp', says David Wish, the band's leader, founder and token grownup. Wish's group has a lot on it's schedule: a run-through of a Carlos Santana tune, some funk and blues improvisation and a tutuorial on stage presence. . .The scrappy rockers, ages 11 to 17 are students at North Star Academy, a public charter school in Newark, N.J., that had no formal music curriculum three years ago. Now it hosts a small but rollicking before-school guitar class run by Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that doles out free instruments and lessons in popular music in more than 120 public schools in Newark, New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area and Memphis, Tenn. . .One of the fall's hottest movies, School of Rock, starring Jack Black as a head banging substitute teacher, is spreading the mantra that kids playing rock'n'roll can change the world. . .Wish borrowed instruments from friends and began recording his students and mailing CDs to local musicians known for philanthropy, like Santana and Bonnie Raitt. Soon the stars were dropping in for jam sessions. . .. . .Jessica Dunston, 16, . . .is proud of her broad taste in music. 'Most of my friends like hip-hop. I like that. I like punk', she says, ticking off a finger. 'And heavy metal, speed metal, grunge, Sade, Prince, Jimi Hendrix. . .'"

Yes, Virginia, there is hope for music in the future.

I knew it wasn't because they found out about him on their own. Who's gonna teach the babies?