Talk to the Teacher
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🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s bonus episode: Elizabeth and Jamilah are joined by Ask a Teacher columnists Amy Scott and Brandon Hersey to discuss how parents should approach their kid’s teacher to make sure they form a good, working relationship. What’s the best way to communicate important information without overwhelming or overstepping? Now that some schools are opting for virtual learning, how can parents replicate the brief, but important, conversations that happen at pick up or in the halls?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Tuesday, August 18th, the Talk to the Teacher Edition. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3. And I'm located in Navar, Florida. |
| 0:20.4 | Hi, I'm Jamila Lemieux. I'm a writer, contributor to |
| 0:23.2 | Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column and Mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, |
| 0:28.5 | California. On today's show, we'll be talking with Brandon Hersey and Amy Scott from Slate's |
| 0:34.0 | Ask a Teacher column about how to best communicate with your child's teacher |
| 0:37.6 | and build a relationship with them for a successful school year. Before we get to that, |
| 0:42.0 | we have triumphs and fails. Jamila, do you have a triumph or fail for us? So I'm going to |
| 0:47.1 | give you all, I'll do it historical. I guess we'll call it a triumph. It's very on brand for me, |
| 0:52.4 | and I think it's loosely connected to our |
| 0:54.8 | topic this week, talking to teachers about how to communicate with them and advocate on behalf of our |
| 1:00.6 | parents, even though my parents were not in this story at all. When I was in third grade, |
| 1:05.9 | I was in the lunchtime, I'm going to say there was like, maybe it was lunchtime. And there was a |
| 1:10.5 | girl named Lindsay who had a kind of on again, off again, front of me relationship with. |
| 1:15.5 | And I guess we were off on this day. |
| 1:17.7 | And so like, maybe she'd hit me or something. |
| 1:20.9 | She'd done something wrong. |
| 1:21.9 | And there was a little bit. |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.3 | So there's a little bit of commotion. |
| 1:26.5 | And the gym teacher who was like the lunch monitor observed what happened. Yeah. So there's a little bit of commotion and the gym teacher who was like the lunch monitor observed what happened, you know, comes over. Lindsay immediately like comes, I think she pretended to cry or something like comes up with the whole story about something I'd done wrong. And we were both sent to the wall. I hate the wall. I hope that's something that I know it's become a lot less popular than it was |
| 1:45.0 | when we were kids, but like just standing on the wall during a lunch period or during gym class or |
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