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October First (Season 1, Episode 3)

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A quick show note: This one is pretty personal. I’m definitely a big advocate for schools and the people who run them. But sometimes the best way to initiate important systemic change is to stop shouting and hold up a mirror.

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“Ben walked into class late. Again. And Ben left early. Again. He told me it was going to happen, and I wouldn’t have been surprised, even without a warning. Because it was late October, and Ben was on his way out…

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Music:
Minimalist Study in F Minor by Nathan Howe.

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Ben walked into class late. Again. And Ben left early. Again. He told me it was going to happen, and I wouldn’t have been surprised, even without a warning. Because it was late October, and Ben was on his way out.

Ben isn’t his real name, but he stands out in my mind: a lanky teenager with shock of white-blond hair and a face that always teetered on the edge of genuine surprise and familiar regret. Some piercings, some chains, all the normal teenage “Don’t mess with me” signals.

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Susan (Season 1, Episode 2)

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“Susan was a teacher. And she must have been a good one, because she was hired to be the headmistress at the Academy at Canajoharie, New York in 1846. It wasn’t her first teaching job; she had worked for several years at a Quaker boarding school, and in many ways she was a good stereotypical Quaker girl, still wearing intentionally plain dresses when she first came to town, her speech peppered with thees and thous. But while she worked at Canajoharie, her dresses became a bit more modern, maybe a bit more colorful, and most of her thees and thous turned to yous…

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Susan was a teacher. And she must have been a good one, because she was hired to be the headmistress at the Academy at Canajoharie, New York in 1846. It wasn’t her first teaching job; she had worked for several years at a Quaker boarding school, and in many ways she was a good stereotypical Quaker girl, still wearing intentionally plain dresses when she first came to town, her speech peppered with thees and thous. But while she worked at Canajoharie, her dresses became a bit more modern, maybe a bit more colorful, and most of her thees and thous turned to yous.

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