Dave Grohl understands how hard teachers work: As the Foo Fighters frontman said on Wednesday (January 20) in Joe Biden’s special, Celebrating America’s prime time opening, his mother, Virginia, was a school teacher public for 35 years. She was “a mentor to her students, remembered long after her graduation,” said Grohl.
For the special, the band was introduced by Mackenzie Adams, a kindergarten teacher who went viral in her high-energy virtual classes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The next song is for Mackenzie and all of our unshakable teachers who continue to enlighten our nation’s students every day,” said Grohl when presenting “Times Like These”, the very appropriate 2003 song from the band’s fourth album , One by one.