It's the Brown and Laird Show on W.

Good morning again everyone.

It's the Brown and Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

And pertinent to the lead story that we just heard

from Michael Hill, how remote learning is going

on this snow day that isn't really a snow day at least in the New York

City school system later this hour get ready for this if you're a parent or if

you're a student later this hour we're going to invite calls from parents whose kids are home today,

but not for an old-fashioned snow day off from school, rather for this new and dignity visited upon childhood by the legacy of the pandemic a

remote learning day instead of a snow day whether it's log in problems or they're

not really doing anything or whatever.

We're going to invite you to call in and report how that's going.

But also, and heads up parents who want to alert your students or any teens who happen to be listening.

We're going to invite students of any age, not just parents, to call in on that segment in about 20 minutes and give us one opinion about anything in the news.

You have to be a student, high school or younger for that one, but here's the thing.

If they call, if you call, you can tell your teacher that Brian Lehrer said you should get extra credit and social studies for doing it. Okay. So maybe it'll even be fun gather up aojan opinion on something in the news kids and call it in for

extra credit. That'll be in around 20 minutes from right now. Meanwhile, ahead of Valentine's Day, which is tomorrow, by the way, in case anyone needed a reminder,

and I think the price of roses just went up a little more just from me saying that,

we now turn to the other relationships in our lives our friends in a new book

producer and editor of NPR's embedded podcast Rayna Cohen takes a closer look at why Americans put so much emphasis on romantic relationships

and expect so little from friends and she asks what would happen to both partnerships if those

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