So… You Want to Be a Homeschooler?
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Dan, and Elizabeth debate the pros and cons of learning pods and homeschooling for the upcoming school year. Why are people doing it? Who does it benefit? Who does it harm? Then, for parents who have decided to homeschool their own children due to health concerns, Elizabeth talks homeschooling 101 with two homeschool extraordinaires: Monica Olivera of MommyMaestra and Latonya Moore of Joy in the Ordinary.
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Recommendations:
Dan recommends the board game Betrayal At House On The Hill.
Elizabeth recommends a kid-friendly meditation device called Zenimal.
Jamilah recommends The Kids Are Asleep. Stream the hilarious Slate Live show via Slate’s Facebook or YouTube on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
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The Latest in School Segregation: Private Pandemic ‘Pods’ by Clara Totenberg Green.
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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, July 30th, |
| 0:10.4 | The So You Want to Be a homeschooler edition. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic, and mom to Naima, who is seven, and we reside in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Dan Coist. I'm a writer for Slate and the author of the book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 12. We live in Arlington, Virginia. I don't want to be a homeschooler. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, Teddy 3, |
| 0:42.3 | and I live in Navarre, Florida, and I am a homeschooler. |
| 0:47.4 | Let's go! |
| 0:49.9 | Hi, I'm Dan. |
| 0:50.9 | I want to be anything but Elizabeth. |
| 0:54.1 | And now it's you, Elizabeth. |
| 0:57.0 | So today on the show, we're going to be discussing learning pods and homeschooling for fall of 2020. |
| 1:03.8 | School is going to be back in session very soon. |
| 1:07.3 | And there's a lot of kids who will not be physically returning to a classroom. |
| 1:11.1 | Why are people turning to homeschooling? |
| 1:13.1 | What are the pros and cons for families and the education system? |
| 1:16.6 | And is homeschooling something that you should be considering for your household? |
| 1:20.5 | We'll also have Elizabeth talking homeschool one-on-one with two other homeschooling parents. |
| 1:26.0 | Spoiler alert, Dan will not be a part of that conversation. |
| 1:29.8 | It just hurts the vibe. |
| 1:33.4 | Where do you even begin? Don't worry. If you've been asking yourself that question, Elizabeth |
| 1:38.7 | has got you and I ain't got nothing for you because I don't even know how to do distance learning, |
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