Hear Me Out: Schools Do Too Much (Often Badly)

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Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: sharpen up. Public schooling in this country has had a lot of champions — including some that you might not expect. But did we ever actually agree on what we wanted schools to do for society? Elizabeth Newcamp of Slate’s Care & Feeding joins us to argue for a reappraisal of the whole system… and what it means to educate. If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: [email protected] Podcast production by Maura Currie. Want more Hear Me Out? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/hearmeoutplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hear Me Out. I'm Celeste Hedley. It is back to school season, so gather up your pencils and binders, put your phones away, get ready to learn.
0:09.0	Will you learn though in a way that makes you a better adult a better person maybe a
0:14.6	better citizen across the political spectrum you'll find people sounding the
0:18.5	alarm about problems in the public education system. Accessibility issues, segregation, book bans, safety in the schools,
0:25.8	too much freedom, too little freedom, the list goes on. There is also a nationwide shortage of teachers.
0:32.9	So is now a good time to criticize
0:35.0	the very structure of schooling in America?
0:37.7	Is there ever a good time?
0:39.6	Anytime I bring this up on the podcast,
0:41.0	people get super mad.
0:42.2	And I think they know inside that
0:44.3	they don't feel great about everything that's happening but what other option do we have?
0:49.3	There has to be something else.
0:51.0	Elizabeth New Camp of Slate's Karen Feeding Podcast joins us in just a moment.
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1:30.0	Welcome back to Hear Me Out. I'm Celeste Hedley. I'm about to read you a quote from a figure in American history and I want you to guess who said this. Here we go.
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