TPP 110: A Conversation Between Debbie and 13-year-old Asher About Education
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's like if you have an emergency preparedness kit or something.
Yeah.
And it's like, oh, I'm not good at first aid, so I'll just throw out all the first aid supplies. If you're not good at something, you still need to know it. Okay,
I'm taking note of this for next year for our school.
No, no,
don't do that. I
have a
record.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber, and today I have for you an Asher special episode. For those of you who are newer to the show, when I launched this podcast a little over two years ago, Asher and I recorded episodes every couple of weeks. In fact, we made nearly 20 of these Asher specials to date. And as Asher is growing up and into... a teenager, he's very appropriately becoming more private in his thoughts and feelings. So we are cutting back on the episodes that involve Asher. However, we decided to do this one last episode on the topic of education, as we've been having lots of interesting conversations about this ourselves lately, and we thought it might be cool to share them for the podcast.
So today we're going to talk about how Asher learns, what he thinks schools get wrong when it comes to supporting atypical learners, and what ideas he has for schools to become more inclusive. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Hey, Asher, how are you? Great. How are you? I'm good. Thank you. We haven't done one of these Asher special episodes in a while. And I wanted to just have a conversation with you. We've been having a lot of discussions about education, the state of education and what your education looks like, changes we're making, all those kinds of things. And so I thought we'd just have a conversation rather than a specific Q&A or anything like that, because I think your thoughts about education are interesting as someone who was in the system and now is being homeschooled and you're learning kind of in an alternative way.
Does that sound okay with you?
Yeah, that sounds great.
So we are wrapping up the end of seventh grade here. I'm just curious how you think school's been this year.
Yeah,
we've done kind of a mishmash of online classes. We had your dad step in as a teacher this year. You and I did some things together. You had some teachers coming in from outside. So tell me about the online classes that you've done. And you don't have to go into the details for each one, but I'm just curious what that format has been like for you taking the virtual live classes.
It's been pretty good. It's kind of bothersome because they all happen at night.
For you, they do because of the time difference.
Yeah.
So has that been hard to have school during the day and then have a little time off and then have to get back on a call?
Yeah.
Yeah, I totally understand that. That's hard. We're actually trying to make a change for next year so that the classes we've chosen, I was really careful so that they were earlier in the day. Like, I think 5 p.m. is your latest class because you had one class that was at 8 p.m. this year, and I think that was probably too late.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm just curious what the interaction has been like. Have you enjoyed getting to connect with other kids? Do you feel like that is real classroom conversation that's happening, whether it's over the microphone or in the chat rooms?
I mean, not really, because there are none of the same kids in each class. So I feel like I only know them through that class.
Through that one class.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And now that it's over, I'll never communicate with them again.
Oh. Well, maybe you will. You're doing a project with one of your teachers with another student. You guys will probably be in touch for a long time, I have a feeling.
Okay, I suppose. That's top
secret. Okay, it's top secret. We won't discuss that. No problem. Well, one of the things that we've been talking about, because you're going into eighth grade, and then high school will be on the horizon.
What does Asher think about his 7th‑grade online learning experience?
And we're just trying to think about what's working, what isn't working, what we might want to do different.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:12
2
What does Asher think about his 7th‑grade online learning experience?
4:12–11:38
3
How does Asher describe his preferred ways of learning (reading, videos, discussion)?
11:38–16:20
4
What problems does Asher see in the traditional school model for atypical learners?
16:20–29:53
Speakers
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