VMT recruitment: "Rock the Arts"

VMT Magnet School to Rock The Arts!

The LISD Vidal M. Trevino school of arts and communication has joined the movement of transforming the verb "to rock". The Laredo Morning Times is reporting the VMT Magnet school's recruitment theme this year is "Rock the Arts". What else would you expect of such an innovative school? As Laredotejas has reported before: somethings used to rock, now you rock somethings. For example, whereas in the past it was simply "the band rocks", today we hear "the band rocks some cool songs".

The way I understand it, to rock is being transformed right before our eyes (ears) and now comes equipped with it's own direct object: VMT rocks the arts (subject/verb/direct object). Just as the laid-back Bruce Banner can quickly turn himself into the aggresive Incredible Hulk, this verb also has the power to morph from an unimposing intransative verb to an in-your-face, transitive one.

So just be sure to keep this in mind next time you find yourself visiting the VMT magnet school: if the house is a rockin' (the arts) then don't bother knocking.