Claudia Perez returns to talk about her year from a more personal perspective. (7 minutes)
Song:
“I Needed You Most” by Marie
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Act Four: Quarantweening
Producer Chana Joffe-Walt talks to a seventh grader who doesn’t have a seventh grade, or an eighth grade. (11 minutes)
Act One: Masked Crusaders
Two teachers find themselves thrown into a heated and ugly fight with parents right before school opens back up.
Act Two: Screen Times at Ridgemont High
Aviva DeKornfeld talks with a high schooler about how he’s prepped for remote learning with a bunch of kids he doesn’t know. (4 minutes)
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Act Four: Boiling Under
Lots of things go unspoken between family members, sometimes for years.
Act Three: There’s a German Word for That
Ira Glass talks to journalist Jochen Bittner about a political lie from 1920s Germany and the lessons it holds for 2020s America.
Act Two: Deer in the Footlights
Ira talks with Connie Rex about the deer she and her sisters kidnapped and ended up putting into their school’s Christmas pageant in Woodruff, Utah, in a starring role.