23. Suburban Education and Mental Health

This episode kind of acts as a companion to episode 1. You don’t have to listen to episode 1 first in order to follow along, but you’ll get the most out of it if you do.  **I made a mistake at 0:38. I said “it’s going to be episode 22,” but obviously this is episode 23.**  We discuss: my new cat and animal domestication, suburban education vs urban education, whether giving more money to urban schools would improve them, how suburban schools handle student misbehavior vs. urban schools, the age where students are considered responsible for their own problems, brain breaks and block schedules, teacher coaches and supervisors, the pledge of allegiance, critical race theory, and ideologies in education, student seating arrangements and 504 plans, lesson planning, curriculum, and the parallels between teaching and DMing, dynamic characters vs static characters, overanalyzing art and where meaning in art comes from, school boards, racism and some problems with wokeism, mental health and anxiety, and therapy. The kid bringing a watermelon to school: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/b92599/kid_received_permission_from_the_teacher_to_eat_a/ Ted Talk about student misbehavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM6Kb2q8Dho Correction about the pledge of allegiance. It was written in 1892, officially adopted by Congress in 1942, and the words “under god” were added in 1954. The documentary on the blue eyes/brown eyes class experiment by Jane Elliot. “A Class Divided.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mcCLm_LwpE Book to read: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss