Ep 76 | What School Is For, Nation’s Report Card, Free Range Parenting

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Ravi and Rikki start this special Back to School episode by discussing a new series from The New York Times asking authors a simple yet expansive question: What Is School For? Then the hosts turn to the “Nation’s Report Card,” a bleak look at the extent and severity of COVID learning losses. FIRE is out with its annual college free speech rankings; Rikki and Ravi sift through the data and draw their conclusions. And finally, we’ll check back in on an Arizona mom who’s become a cause célèbre for free range parenting advocates. [2:02] What Is School For? [19:00] Nation's Report Card [28:19] FIRE Free Speech Rankings [36:04] Free Range Parenting Check out our show notes: https://lostdebate.com/2022/09/08/ep-76/ Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Sticher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iheart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0	In order to understand our history, you need to be able to read.
0:04.9	And like, we need to be spending more time talking about, do our kids know how to read?
0:09.7	Do they know that they understand math, right?
0:11.5	You don't know you're getting ripped off, for instance, by a subprime mortgage if you don't know math.
0:25.5	Welcome to the Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta.
0:26.4	And I'm Ricky Schlaught.
0:27.7	Well, Ricky, I'm coming to you once again from sunny California.
0:31.5	Just for those keeping track, I flew across the country back to New York, but now I'm back
0:35.7	again in L.A. to see my Buffalo Bills open
0:40.7	the NFL season against the Los Angeles ramps.
0:44.4	It's bright and early over there for you?
0:46.7	What is it, like 7.30?
0:47.9	Yeah, it's beautiful.
0:49.7	I'm in one of these high rises in Santa Monica, and I could see the beach.
0:52.6	And, you know, it was a torturous morning because it was preparing for this podcast Monica and I could see the beach and you know I it was a torturous
0:55.1	morning because preparing for this podcast and I could see people surfing for my window and I'm sadly
1:01.6	not able to get out there. It's a hard knock life for you. I see. It's tough. It's very tough.
1:07.2	Yeah. But you know it's particularly tough, Ricky, for some of our kids out there.
1:12.6	We got 50 million kids who are throwing on their Elmo backpacks and dragging themselves
1:16.6	to the bus stop this week.
1:19.6	It's back to school time, which for us is warranting a very special back-to-school episode.
1:25.6	And so today we're going to tackle some big questions around
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