AURORA, Ill., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Two Oswego, Ill., schools will be among the first public schools to give their teens a chance to enroll in a course on pop music and lyric writing.
The School Board in Oswego has passed a "School of Rock" course that will teach kids how to analyze and create their own music, the Aurora (Ill.) Beacon News reports.
The board skeptical about the course after some members said they were concerned how parents at Oswego and Oswego East would react to the news that the school' would offer a course that shares the name of a 2003 movie starring Jack Black as a teacher-impersonator who turns a fifth-grade private-school class into a rock band.
But teachers went ahead and developed the curriculum, striking a compromise with the course name, "School of Rock: Techniques in Contemporary Music."
