133: What Not to Admit in Your Class Journal

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What were you willing to share in your class-assigned journal? What’s too much to share with your authority figures? Hear tales of teenagers who had no idea where to draw the line.

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0:00.0	Radio Tapio.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:10.0	Dear diary.
0:11.0	6th grade. February 14th.
0:13.0	1991.
0:14.0	I am really depressed.
0:15.0	How could she break up with me?
0:17.0	Mom, you can't read this.
0:26.0	When I was in the third grade,
0:28.0	I made my first attempt at a pressing a woman that was out of my league.
0:34.0	That woman was my third grade teacher, Ms. Charlton.
0:39.0	Most kids who keep diaries do so because they want to.
0:43.0	But other kids like Joseph Daly,
0:45.0	write in a diary because they're forced to.
0:47.0	Every week, Ms. Charlton had our class due journal entries.
0:50.0	And she would write comments in response to what we wrote.
0:54.0	Of course, Joseph wasn't some scandalous teenager with secrets to hide.
0:58.0	He was just in third grade.
1:00.0	And if anything, this was Joe's big chance to have a more rewarding relationship with his favorite teacher.
1:05.0	I like school on Friday.
1:07.0	It is fun.
1:08.0	We have fun tests on Friday.
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