The podcast · Coming soon
The other side of school.
I spent eleven years on the other side of the teacher’s desk, more than 2,000 students, and a lot of what I watched happen to those kids is exactly the stuff nobody tells parents. So that’s what this show is. What school is actually doing to kids, and what you can do about it at home, whether your kids are still in school or you’re already homeschooling.
On the show
Rethinking education, out loud.
Each episode takes one thing school has made normal and looks at it from the other side of the desk.
School
What school calls “fine”
Why so many kids hold it together all day and fall apart the minute they get home, and the homework that quietly takes over the evenings.
Screens
Screens, from inside the classroom
What a device on every desk was supposed to do for learning, and what a teacher actually watched it do.
Homeschooling
Secular homeschooling, as it really looks
Who is homeschooling now, why it looks nothing like the stereotype, and how families build a day that actually works.
Reading
Why kids stop reading for fun
Reading logs, levels and assessed reading, and how to give a kid back the books they used to love.
Your host
Hi, I’m Alanna.
I’m a former public school English teacher, the author of Uninfluenceable, and a secular homeschooling mom of four. My own kids have never been to public school, but a lot of the parents I write for have kids in it right now, so this show is for both of you (and for anyone still standing in the middle trying to decide).
Coming soon
Hear it first.
The show isn’t out yet. Get the weekly essay in the meantime, and I’ll tell you there the day the first episode goes live.
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