“No comment,” is all the music teacher had to say to me on Tuesday morning.
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Disturbing Allegations Emerge Against School of Rock Founder Paul Green
This isn’t an easy thing for me to write about. With a side job as a musician and concert producer, I’ve worked with School of Rock founder Paul Green on more than one occasion. I’d produce a concert, and he’d send a talented band of teenagers to open the show. I wrote about his return to Philly in 2017, long after he and School of Rock parted ways and just as he was opening the Paul Green Rock Academy, which still exists in Manayunk… at least for now. I’ve seen him work with numerous kids over the years. And now: there’s an absolute bombshell of a story by journalist Ezra Marcus in the publication Air Mail.
You definitely need to read this investigative report in full, and you can do so via this link. But the most damning thing to come out of the report is that multiple former students — male and female — have accused Paul Green of inappropriate contact…