Reopening Schools Edition
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🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth interview Dr. Joseph Allen from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health who argues that remote school is failing our kids. Allen explains why virtual dropout is so concerning, especially to low income and minority students. They also discuss leadership failures and what infrastructure schools need to make sure they are safe for students, teachers and staff.
Following the interview, they answer a wild listener question about body shaming, blackmail, and ostracization.
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Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends trying embroidery with your kids. Specifically the kits from Oh Sew Bootiful.
Jamilah recommends Dole Whip. Since you probably won’t be at Disney any time soon, you may as well make it yourself.
Dan recommends a tactic if your kids aren’t leaving to go to bed… just start making out with your partner. The room will be evacuated in no time.
Additional Recommendations:
The Kids Are Asleep, the hilarious Slate Live show. Catch it via Slate’s Facebook or YouTube on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
U.S. schooling during covid-19 doesn’t deserve a passing grade. Here’s the way forward. by Jessica Cohen, Sara Bleich, Joseph Allen and Benjamin Sommers.
Is go-slow schools’ reopening failing kids? by Alvin Powell.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast, for Thursday, October 22nd, the Reopening Schools Edition. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Dan Coist. I'm a writer at slate.com. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family, |
| 0:17.2 | and I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13, we live in Arlington, Virginia. Hi, I'm Jamila Amu, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, hosts the Slates, the kids are asleep, and mom to Naima, who is seven going on 37. We live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family |
| 0:38.8 | travel blog Dutch Dutch Groo. I'm the mom to three little, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy |
| 0:44.0 | who's four, and I'm located in Navar, Florida. We've already had one show this week. Jamila's |
| 0:49.5 | incredible Ask a Teacher Spectacular, where we revisited the four teachers that we talked to back in July. |
| 0:55.0 | You'll find it in your feeds it published on Tuesday. |
| 0:57.3 | But we are very excited to have this show, another school conversation, this time with Joseph Allen from Harvard School of Public Health, about why he thinks opening schools slowly is failing students and what we should do to speed things up. |
| 1:11.8 | We're going to have some good questions for him. |
| 1:13.3 | We're also going to be tackling a wild listener question about body shaming, frenemies, and a neighborhood gone feral. |
| 1:20.0 | As always, we have triumphs and fails. |
| 1:21.9 | We have recommendations. |
| 1:23.2 | Let's start today, as we always do with triumphs and fails. |
| 1:26.4 | Jamila, what do you have? |
| 1:44.9 | I've got a two for one, and they took place in the last 30 minutes. So I can't luckily... Always good when they're fresh. Yeah, hot out of the oven. I can't even remember what the fail I had prepared was. So that's just how to show you how frequently I'm racking them up this week. Mercury is in retrograde, you guys. So, |
| 1:49.0 | you know, be gentle with yourselves. It's happening for a reason. Don't let Dan tell you otherwise. |
| 1:55.7 | So I was trying to get a quick, uh, a quick drink before we started to show I had taken a walk. |
| 2:02.6 | Or, you know, I got back inside. It was a little warm. And so I have some tea concentrate for lattes. See, I'm too progressive to say chai. And I certainly would not be caught saying chai tea like we did in the |
| 2:07.3 | 90s. I know better now. I'm so sorry. It's really delicious. And thank you. So we have like |
| 2:12.8 | the concentrate or whatever, right? And so I'm the only person in the house who's going to drink |
| 2:17.0 | that. So I can drink directly from the like, there's no guess, you know, it's just me. So adult |
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