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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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A new On Point special series explores why America’s boys are falling behind in school, and what can be done about it.
Hear the first episode on Monday, April 14 in your podcast feed.
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0:00.0 | Good morning, everybody. |
0:02.0 | Good morning. |
0:03.0 | Good morning. |
0:03.0 | You're just my hospital. |
0:04.7 | You're ready to have a good day today? |
0:05.8 | Yes. |
0:08.2 | Hi, it's Megna here. |
0:09.9 | You've heard me talking about it multiple times in the On Point podcast, and now it's just days away. |
0:15.5 | It's our next special series and one that I really care about. |
0:19.0 | It's called Falling Behind, the Miseducation of America's Boys. |
0:23.5 | The ways that school doesn't work for lots of boys comes with a higher penalty. |
0:28.5 | He calls it six cruel hours of our lives, you know, an acronym for school. |
0:34.9 | The data was so that we're failing them desperately. |
0:38.3 | It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. |
0:44.3 | If you have a teacher tells you like you're really badly behaved and sends you all these messages that you're not going to do well, it turns out there's a little bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy there. One, two, three. |
0:55.7 | All right, number five. |
0:57.9 | As a first grade teacher, |
1:00.0 | relationships with the boys became a window |
1:02.8 | into what I argue now is a need for the reimagining |
1:07.4 | of black boyhood. |
1:08.9 | Just because your skin could think that you could don't violence, |
1:11.6 | because they see other black children on the news, |
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