{"id":28897,"date":"2024-02-29T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/steven-van-zandt-plays-teacher-at-new-jersey-middle-school\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T00:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:02:25","slug":"steven-van-zandt-plays-teacher-at-new-jersey-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/steven-van-zandt-plays-teacher-at-new-jersey-middle-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Van Zandt plays teacher at New Jersey middle school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-28\/M_StevenVanZandt_022324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Disney\/Michael J. Le Brecht II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>E Street Band<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Steven Van Zandt<\/strong> stopped by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on Tuesday, where he played teacher using his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/teachrock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>TeachRock<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> learning curriculum, which uses music history to teach students important lessons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/02\/27\/steven-van-zant-bruce-springsteen-sopranos-martin-luther-king\/72745692007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Asbury Park Press<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\">,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Van Zandt sat in on teacher <strong>Allison Hoffman<\/strong>\u2019s class, where she taught her students about segregation using <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>\u2019 refusal to play to the segregated South in the 1960s as an example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Students were also taught about Van Zandt\u2019s\u00a01985 protest song \u201cSun City,\u201d which featured such artists as <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>, <strong>Jackson Browne <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong>, and helped draw attention to apartheid in South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt&#8217;s a lazy way to have your identity to be based on hatred or hate, you know?\u201d the rocker told the class. &#8220;It&#8217;s a lazy way of going through life and we have a lot of examples of that going on right now.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As for the students, Van Zandt told the paper, \u201cThey&#8217;re just smarter than us and faster than us. &#8230; It just confirmed for us the reason we started this curriculum was because we need to create a new methodology of teaching for this generation. We got to do it. The old methods are not going to work for these kids.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Van Zandt will soon be a little too busy to play teacher, as he and the E Street Band are due to join Springsteen on the latest leg of his tour, which kicks off March 19 in Phoenix, Arizona. A complete list of dates can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brucespringsteen.net\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>brucespringsteen.net<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney\/Michael J. Le Brecht II E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt stopped by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on Tuesday, where he played teacher using his TeachRock learning curriculum, which uses music history to teach students important lessons. 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