Devorah Heitner
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2,393 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2018
last heard 17 Oct
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And that's why actually learning really critical history or books like Lies My Teacher Told Me or there's some other really great books that are like critical histories of like what didn't you know?
Like what didn't you
you know when you were a little kid celebrating Columbus Day or whatever, are really attractive to teenagers because teenagers are ready to do that critical work.
Um my son's school is putting on Peter Pan and I'm like not happy about it.
It that this a really problematic play with some very racist scenes.
They won't even show the Disney version on the Disney Channel anymore for the last two years.
And
One of the things I've said to the teacher is I hope that this is an opportunity for the kids to grapple with this historical text because I think they're so ready, right?
These eighth graders are going to be so ready to be like, let's look at the racism in this and how it's been staged in different places and what the critical response has been, as opposed to just let's not do it, which might have been my first choice, but it's happening.
So I'm like, okay.
But I think they're so ready.
The challenge is when they turn that sort of critical
conspiracy vibe onto you and everything you or their other parent believes is a conspiracy, that's a problem.
And so if your kid is going down a road of very problematic beliefs, I mean like not just like
they're obsessed with anime and they wanna make their hair hair look like anime and they wanna dress like anime and you're like, this isn't how I pictured my kid looking in ninth grade.
Like I'm talking about saying actually harmful, like because I think it's really important that we don't fight sweat the small stuff.
You know what I mean?
Like pick a different battle.
But if it's really something that your kid is obsessed with that is problematic, where they're getting in touch with people who are dangerous, where they're uh s espousing views that sound hateful.
then I think as many people in their life as you can enlist to get support that are not you, because developmentally they are programmed to think that you're overprotective, you're wrong, you don't know anything, and that is just adolescence.
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