Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - A Teacher Weighs In On Grades
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Lucy, Jamilah and Zak ask a teacher! We heard your desire to hear from the professionals about education… and we’re so excited to welcome dad, 9th grade English teacher, and longtime C&F listener Jeff Olsen Biebighauser to the show. We’ll talk through grades, homework, and the art of a parent-teacher conference.
We’ll also debrief with a round of triumphs and fails, of course — including stories about birthday dinners at Red Lobster, low-budget birthday parties, and the advent of the hair tantrum.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, |
| 0:07.0 | the show where we raise the next generation together. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:11.0 | I make another podcast, it's called The Best Advice Show, and I am Dad to six-year-old Noah and |
| 0:15.9 | three-year-old Ami. |
| 0:17.1 | We live in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 0:18.1 | Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. |
| 0:20.3 | I host a Mama Sita Riga podcast.re to Teen Dragon Emilia who's 13 and |
| 0:25.6 | tween Dragon Avery who's 11. We live in Miami. I'm Jamila Lemie |
| 0:30.9 | a writer contributor to slice Slice Tarrantin column, and Mom Tnaima, who is just about 11, |
| 0:38.2 | and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:40.2 | Today on the show, it's time to ask a teacher. |
| 0:43.2 | We heard you loud and clear after our conversations about grades a few weeks back |
| 0:47.5 | and we're bringing in a brilliant expert. |
| 0:49.9 | He is a ninth grade English teacher who actually gave us a lackluster report card on those episodes. |
| 0:56.0 | We've got a ton of questions for him and you won't want to miss it. |
| 0:59.0 | At the end of the show, we'll of course debrief on our week with a round of triumphs and fails. |
| 1:04.0 | So let's get going. We're going to take a quick break and then we'll see you back here for our |
| 1:07.4 | Ask a Teacher. |
| 1:11.4 | Okay, we're back. In case you missed it, we ran two episodes about grades a few weeks ago. |
| 1:16.0 | The short version is that we, your hosts, said that grades are bullshit or some variation on that. And a lot of you came back at us with some really |
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