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Hello, and welcome back to big mood, little mood. I am your host, Danny M. Lavery, and I

wanted to remind you all that on April 4th, Slate will be releasing a book anthology

of some of my best deer prudence columns. So please do keep an eye out for that. It's

available for pre-order now, or starting April 4th will be available for purchase and bookstores

and everywhere else. In the meantime, I have some questions to answer today, and my guest

this week is Sharon Lurie, a data journalist based in New Orleans. She formerly taught

middle school math. Sharon, welcome to the show.

Hi, glad to be here, Danny. This is very exciting.

Did you like teaching middle school math? Was it, did you enjoy it? Would you recommend

it?

Well, I love the kids, and I love math. So no break, it was great, right?

There were difficulties about it, and I felt that I was not properly prepared or given

the right resources. So my particular experience, I would not recommend, but I do love teaching

in general. But while I was teaching middle school math, I also founded the student newspaper,

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