"I wouldn't trust the U.S. secretary of percussion to tell me how to play 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'"

I feel the way about Dave Grohl that I do about Sting -- why listen to his later stuff when you can pump Nirvana (or The Police) straight into your ear-holes?

My music snobbery aside, this piece on (not) opening up schools this fall is excellent and even a pretty wonderful love letter to his mom, a public school teacher:

"Every teacher has a 'plan.' Don’t they deserve one too? My mother had to come up with three separate lesson plans every single day (public speaking, AP English, and English 10), because that’s what teachers do: They provide you with the necessary tools to survive. Who is providing them with a set of their own? America’s teachers are caught in a trap, set by indecisive and conflicting sectors of failed leadership that have never been in their position and can’t possibly relate to the unique challenges they face. I wouldn’t trust the U.S. secretary of percussion to tell me how to play 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' if they had never sat behind a drum set, so why should any teacher trust Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to tell them how to teach, without her ever having sat at the head of a class? (Maybe she should switch to the drums.) Until you have spent countless days in a classroom devoting your time and energy to becoming that lifelong mentor to generations of otherwise disengaged students, you must listen to those who have. Teachers want to teach, not die, and we should support and protect them like the national treasures that they are. For without them, where would we be?

May we show these tireless altruists a little altruism in return. I would for my favorite teacher. Wouldn’t you?"

Amen.  If anything, Grohl is pulling his punches.  We have no plan for opening schools this fall beyond "try not to get sick and die."  It's pure Trumpism.  And it's going to get children and adults killed.