Episode 29: Caps, Gowns, and Grown-Up Drama: Graduation Behind the Curtain

from Playing Teacher · host Matthew Cade, Rob Monahan, and Jeannine Brugge

Send us Fan MailGraduation is supposed to be about the students—but anyone who has worked in a school knows the ceremony often comes with a backstage show of adult politics, bruised egos, seating drama, award rivalries, and exhausted teachers trying to hold it all together.In this episode, Matthew, Brugge, and Doc celebrate Dr. Robert Monahan officially earning his PhD in Education before diving into the strange world of school graduations: kindergarten milestones, sixth-grade sendoffs, stage seating power plays, graduation practice chaos, Teacher of the Year tension, and the emotional moments that somehow survive all the nonsense.From Doc walking his son to kindergarten a week after a heart attack, to Matthew reflecting on Dylan’s school experience, to Brugge calling out the politics hiding behind the pomp, this episode is funny, reflective, and painfully familiar for anyone who has ever survived graduation season in a school.Support the show

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