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This article, which raises a valid point that Levar needs to address, pissed me off. The phonics and mechanics focused programming does nothing to foster a love of reading or even answer the most important question: why is learning to read worthwhile? Shows like RR and mr Rogers showed a generation of kids that there was a whole world beyond what they could see and gave them access to it. Old school bps programming celebrated imagination in the books and land of make believe and possibility in the field trips. Today's pbs programming is weird social skills lessons and cheap Taiwanese GC.

I left teaching for IT. for one you can go take a piss when you need to. I got our when the economy tanked and i wouldn’t know until the first day of school if I had tenure or no job. Another opportunity opened up for me that summer and I took it. I miss the classroom but I don’t miss the enormous stress and exhaustion. To teach even passably well you need to be 100% focused and engaged for 8 hours straight. You need to be constantly monitoring and assessing and pivoting and adjusting and making decisions with immediate consequences and kind non stop. After all of that you have to grade and plan and call parents. It can also be utterly heartbreaking to witness the suffering some kids live with. It’s a really freaking hard job. There are many incredible teachers. There are some who are absolute shit. The incredible ones do it out of a sense of purpose and mission and are woefully underpaid in most places.

Your performance in this film is an integral part of my family history. I grew up in a family that moved internationally a lot. "My voice is my passport, verify me" became a sort of mnemonic cue (to check on where our passports where) anytime we were about to go somewhere. My dad and my sisters and I would just blurt it out to each other. We all just got together on a destination reunion over christmas and the tradition continued. I have very fond childhood memories of watching Sneakers with my dad, Groundhog Day with my cousins, and The Goldburgs and Mindy Project with each of my children as newborns. You may have never been the leading man, but you have brought levity, gravity, and depth to an incredibly wide swath of television and film. Love the podcast, keep it up.

Calling a spade a spade. I like this guy

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