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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Should I Send My Son Back To Private School?

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Should I Send My Son Back To Private School?: Carla’s son has been failing his online studies finding himself 10 lessons behind due to an unmonitored distraction. - Dr. Laura: "Smartphones and video games are "poison" to a kid." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.

0:03.8

Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.

0:09.9

Carla, welcome to the program.

0:12.3

Hi Dr. Laura, how are you?

0:14.5

Fine, what's up?

0:16.3

I'm calling to ask you if I should send my son back to his private school after not doing this.

0:25.3

Is this a COVID question or?

0:28.4

No, no, it's one.

0:31.8

I'll tell you, he did not do well with online learning, you know, the last part of the or the last quarter of a last year.

0:41.0

And but they did allow him extra time to catch up because we have a good relationship with the small Catholic school.

0:47.2

And I was able to get him into an advanced algebra class this summer with the understanding that he was going to be online and do the homework.

0:58.3

Well, he didn't do it. He's like 10 lessons behind although he's smart enough to still keep up.

1:03.6

He is very smart.

1:05.2

He is just lazy and distracted by stupid Xbox.

1:10.4

Only because his mother allows him to have one.

1:14.4

True, but as of, you know, yeah, but this is a hundred percent your fault.

1:20.8

I agree, I agree and believe in that.

1:23.5

Forty years ago, there was a scientific American magazine issue.

1:29.5

And it is they talked about kids, school, families.

1:34.8

And they showed a photograph of a Japanese family.

1:38.4

The kids were at the table doing homework.

1:40.4

The parents were cleaning up and doing stuff around.

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