Speaker 1: It's side with Dan Ray on WBZ Koston's new.
Speaker 2: Radio The Best Laid Plans, et cetera, et cetera. Alison
Speaker 2: on Grim isn't going to be on.
Speaker 3: This next hour.
Speaker 2: I will try to insert her into my Wednesday evening
Speaker 2: schedule to fill in the spot where Teacher Terry had
Speaker 2: been slated. Fortunately, Teacher Terry is able to come on
Speaker 2: now and hopefully this will all work out. Terry, thank
Speaker 2: you for coming on on such short notice.
Speaker 4: Oh, no worries, No worries. You got me out of
Speaker 4: You got me out of some housework.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Well, you know by being around radio for as many years,
Speaker 2: through me and through your husband, that things happen, and
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 3: You have to be able to.
Speaker 2: Bob and weaves just like a professional boxer and roll
Speaker 2: with the punches.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: Now, let's give people a little information about you. You
Speaker 2: are currently a teacher, and you are in the Springfield
Speaker 2: school system.
Speaker 5: Correct, yep, yep, And that is correct.
Speaker 2: And you've been a teacher for decades, and you have
Speaker 2: worked in a variety of school systems like Newton and
Speaker 2: other communities. And you have been a teacher of primarily
Speaker 2: second grade and third grade children.
Speaker 4: Correct, correct elementary age, but primarily first, second and third grade, Okay, and.
Speaker 3: It ain't the same now.
Speaker 2: I'm remembering being in for a second and third grade
Speaker 2: back in the early sixties, and it's an entirely different
Speaker 2: world in my mind comparing then to now. Tell people
Speaker 2: listening what it's like, if they can imagine in September
Speaker 2: going into school for the first day, what's it like,
Speaker 2: what's the environment like?
Speaker 4: Well schools today, and I will preface this by saying,
Speaker 4: good schools today really focus a lot on knowing the
Speaker 4: student and getting to know them as individuals, building relationships
Speaker 4: with them to help them want to learn more. And
Speaker 4: there are a variety of reasons why life has changed,
Speaker 4: and the computer is certainly one of the reasons. And
Speaker 4: students interact much more with computers than they do with people,
Speaker 4: and so that's one of the main reasons why it's
Speaker 4: so important to build those relationships with both the students
Speaker 4: and the parents. But it is. It's a critical part
Speaker 4: of letting them know that there's someone who wants to
Speaker 4: teach them and wants them to like what they're learning,
Speaker 4: and it's interested in what they want to learn and
Speaker 4: what they want to know about. We did something that
Speaker 4: past this past year that I did and we read
Speaker 4: an article and it was in a reading thing and
Speaker 4: it was about micro microplastic that is in the ocean,
Speaker 4: and we had a discussion about what would you do
Speaker 4: to get microplastic out of the ocean, which turned into
Speaker 4: a project where they built different things of microplastic, you know,
Speaker 4: different things to get the microplastic out and how you
Speaker 4: would go about doing that and whether any of their
Speaker 4: ideas were realistic or not. They this small reading passage
Speaker 4: turned into a science project turned into a social studies thing,
Speaker 4: and all of my students will come back and say
Speaker 4: something about recycling and plastics and not using as many
Speaker 4: plastics and having that awareness because one thing sparks another.
Speaker 2: And these are kids that are in the seconds grade. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: and in my era, I mean, the biggest thing that
Speaker 2: we had to deal with was duck and cover as
Speaker 2: far as something that would have an overspreading of attention
Speaker 2: to something nationally, you know, local and I don't know
Speaker 2: what the world of Springfield is like, but I'm sure
Speaker 2: some of the local Springfield issues seep into their curriculum.
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't have thought well for its computers didn't exist.
Speaker 3: In my day.
Speaker 2: They came along long after I was in the first, second,
Speaker 2: and third grade. And that's something that's technology and that's
Speaker 2: the way the world works. And I remember watching The
Speaker 2: Jetsons in nineteen sixty one and seeing el Roy in
Speaker 2: first grade and one of his classmates with his wristwatch
Speaker 2: was watching episodes of the Flintstones. That was art imitating life.
Speaker 2: That is something that can happen today. Yes, that could
Speaker 2: not happen in nineteen sixty one. That was just the
Speaker 2: imagination of some writer of a TV cartoon show.
Speaker 4: Right, you did mention something. You said the biggest thing
Speaker 4: that you had to worry about was duck and cover. Yes,
Speaker 4: so we all know that school shootings are a huge thing,
Speaker 4: and you used to have to do fire drills and
Speaker 4: know how to leave the building in case of a fire, clearly,
Speaker 4: but students today not only need to know fire drills,
Speaker 4: but they also need to know intruder drills. And it's
Speaker 4: really and that I think goes back to it's really
Speaker 4: important for the students to feel connected to their teacher
Speaker 4: because they're put in positions now of extreme trust of
Speaker 4: this one person because they don't know what's on the
Speaker 4: other side of the door, shelter in place.
Speaker 2: You and I are here to talk about back to
Speaker 2: school and what mommy and daddy and grandparents and aunts
Speaker 2: and uncles should get for the kids shouldn't get for
Speaker 2: the kids. And we've already started to go down a
Speaker 2: different path than I want to go. So I want
Speaker 2: to get back to in September. End of August, schools
Speaker 2: are going to be opening their doors again, so let's
Speaker 2: deal with the back to school purchases. Anyone who wants
Speaker 2: to call in six one, seven, two, five, four, ten
Speaker 2: thirty eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty. This is
Speaker 2: Nights Side. Dan Ray is off for the week. I
Speaker 2: am here. I am Morgan, Morgan White Junior. This is
Speaker 2: teacher Terry, and we're gonna be talking about what you
Speaker 2: should be thinking about purchasing for your kids for back
Speaker 2: to school time and temperature nine sixteen seventy five degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Life Sign Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: We're back here on Nights Side. I'm Morgan filling in
Speaker 2: for Dan. My guest this hour, teacher Terry. I've had
Speaker 2: her on many a time, talked about issues that are
Speaker 2: pertinent to those of you who are parents whose kids
Speaker 2: are in elementary.
Speaker 3: School age schools. And in my day, I went.
Speaker 2: To the Boston Public school system, and in my school
Speaker 2: the C. C. Perkins School, and the building is still
Speaker 2: in existence on Saint Petol Street, but it's long since
Speaker 2: been converted into condos. The school gave us eight crayons,
Speaker 2: and boy, I mean they were thick. Orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown,
Speaker 2: and black. Those are the colors in the A crayon box.
Speaker 2: They gave us a pencil. I don't know if they
Speaker 2: were number two pencils. They were a bit thicker than
Speaker 2: the standard slender number two pencils. And they gave us
Speaker 2: a ruler. I think those days are gone. What do
Speaker 2: they give kids from the school department now? And what
Speaker 2: sort of implements should mom and dad purchase for their children.
Speaker 4: Well, those will change from grade to grade, and they
Speaker 4: will change from school to school. Oftentimes, if you're in
Speaker 4: a more urban district, most of your supplies will be covered.
Speaker 4: They will be taken care of by the district. They
Speaker 4: do all of the notebooks, whether they're composition books or
Speaker 4: spiral bound, They do folders. All of those things are
Speaker 4: ready for the students on the first day of school,
Speaker 4: and they also do crayons, whether they do typically they
Speaker 4: will do a sixteen or twenty four box of crayons.
Speaker 4: They will have at least two pencils per students an eraser.
Speaker 4: They don't give out rulers until typically I'm talking about
Speaker 4: most of the school districts that do give out the supplies,
Speaker 4: they won't give out rulers until it comes time for
Speaker 4: measurement in math class because rulers can be used in
Speaker 4: ways other than measuring things. As I'm sure you.
Speaker 2: Know, is that your tactful way of saying that some
Speaker 2: students might actually use them.
Speaker 3: To strike each other.
Speaker 4: They might, They never can tell, they just might, So
Speaker 4: to resist that temptation, we usually wait until later in
Speaker 4: the year when we're actually studying measurement. Some school districts
Speaker 4: will send out a list and say please get five folders,
Speaker 4: three notebooks, pack of pencils, but they'll give you a
Speaker 4: list of things that your child will need throughout the
Speaker 4: school year. Frequently, the reason for doing different notebooks is
Speaker 4: to help students be able to keep their things organized
Speaker 4: a little bit better. They will have a notebook for math,
Speaker 4: they will have a notebook for reading, they will have
Speaker 4: a notebook for writing. So depending on the school district,
Speaker 4: they will ask a variety of different things, and frequently
Speaker 4: they will ask that the notebooks be different colors because
Speaker 4: that helps students differentiate quickly. Oh, I used yellow for mouth,
Speaker 4: so those are.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Those are things that are typical that they will I'm
Speaker 4: so sorry.
Speaker 2: My dog show, my dog and cat show is going
Speaker 2: to be on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, Oh dear, I was just sitting here very quietly,
Speaker 4: and I had one dog jump up on my lap
Speaker 4: and the other one said no, you may not sit
Speaker 4: on her lap, and chaos and sued. So I'm very
Speaker 4: sorry for that interruption. Like you said, things so when
Speaker 4: I always go exactly the way you expect them.
Speaker 3: To, precisely, precisely, so you.
Speaker 4: Will frequently get something from uh, your school district that
Speaker 4: will say, please provide your your student with these things.
Speaker 4: And a backpack or something for them to carry their
Speaker 4: items to and from school is certainly one of those
Speaker 4: things that everyone should have some type of carry carrying
Speaker 4: space to be able to take too in from And
Speaker 4: the smaller the back, the smaller the child, the smaller
Speaker 4: the bag because they need to carry it, so being
Speaker 4: careful not to. Well, they liked this really big bag, yes,
Speaker 4: but now that they put all of their things in there,
Speaker 4: if they can't cary it, it's too heavy. So those
Speaker 4: are some big things. If you're still working on teaching
Speaker 4: your child to tie their shoes, please don't send them
Speaker 4: to school with tie shoes. Send them with velcro or
Speaker 4: just slip on shoes, because tying shoes all day long
Speaker 4: is not really the best use of of time.
Speaker 2: A teacher's time multiplied twenty four untied chew pairs exactly, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: I remember, And I am sorry I'm using me as
Speaker 2: a barometer, but I remember. I had a gun smoke
Speaker 2: lunch box when I was in the second grade. When
Speaker 2: I was in the third grade. I had a Disney
Speaker 2: school bus lunch box when I was in the fourth grade.
Speaker 2: I mean you see where I'm going with this. Yes,
Speaker 2: lunch boxes were the style.
Speaker 4: In the sixties and the style and they also were
Speaker 4: made of actual metal, yes, and again it were a
Speaker 4: heavy metal And.
Speaker 2: The theory of rulers can be applicable here because sometimes
Speaker 2: you might, as a child, use that as a weapon.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna pus mind with words and one I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna be blunt and direct. Kids use them as
Speaker 2: a weapon in my day, not every kid. But I've
Speaker 2: noticed that backpacks all have a brand, an identifiable character
Speaker 2: or characters, whether it's Pokemon, a Hello Kitty, and me
Speaker 2: by saying those two brands, I've already dated myself because
Speaker 2: a second grade child or a third grade child would
Speaker 2: not be caught dead in the fall of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four with a Hello Kitty backpack.
Speaker 4: But whatever, you're wrong, wrong, it's still Kitty, just keeps
Speaker 4: coming back around and around and around.
Speaker 3: Okay, give me some other dames.
Speaker 4: Oh, there will be some. There will be just some
Speaker 4: animal ones. So you'll get things like sharks. You'll get dinosaurs.
Speaker 4: Sharks are huge. You will get Oh my with my
Speaker 4: mind is you'll get You'll get Bluey you. Yeah, you'll
Speaker 4: get you know, some of the different characters that that
Speaker 4: are out now and trying to think, what's.
Speaker 3: The other one with with puppy dogs.
Speaker 4: Oh, paw patrol, Paw patrol. Yes, yes, yes, Paul patrol,
Speaker 4: Paw patrol. You will get some of those.
Speaker 2: Depends on the age dominant for the past five years
Speaker 2: or so.
Speaker 4: Absolutely all right, so, and you'll get some that are
Speaker 4: just their favorite color, and you will get some that
Speaker 4: are you know, Pokemon is still around because of Pokemon Go.
Speaker 4: But is there are just I've seen dragons, I've seen kitties. Hello,
Speaker 4: kitty is still bid? Yeah, there any number of them.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that if I talk to a parent, they'll say, oh, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: mine has been watching this all summer and that's the
Speaker 4: only thing they wanted choose you. I'm sorry, Yeah, yes, indeed,
Speaker 4: I know that definitely a backpack and you know, multi
Speaker 4: colored notebooks kind of thing, multi colored folders as well.
Speaker 4: If you can get a notebook to match a folder,
Speaker 4: your golden well.
Speaker 2: I know, in my era and now, you do not
Speaker 2: want to be the kid that's the odd ball by
Speaker 2: having something that's out of vogue, by having something that
Speaker 2: was in maybe two, three, four years ago but it's
Speaker 2: not in now, because you're stuck with that for the
Speaker 2: whole year. True.
Speaker 4: True, I will say that I don't see as much
Speaker 4: of that in the younger grades because they all still
Speaker 4: like all the you know, the fun right, Like I
Speaker 4: have kids who I'm so dated that my kids were
Speaker 4: little when rug Rats was big. Okay, and I have
Speaker 4: kids who I have kids who wear rug Rats T
Speaker 4: shirts to school. I might you guys are still watching.
Speaker 3: That Everything Old is New again.
Speaker 4: Everything old is new again. So I'm eating.
Speaker 2: Stop you here so I can take my bottom of
Speaker 2: the hour break. I'll invite people to join our conversation
Speaker 2: with the phone number here on night side six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty or eight eight, eight nine to nine
Speaker 2: ten thirty.
Speaker 3: This is teacher Terry.
Speaker 2: I've used her for years for this subject, anything to
Speaker 2: do with school or back to school or specific circumstances.
Speaker 2: I've called her to come on and help my conversation.
Speaker 2: If you want to join this conversation, I just gave
Speaker 2: you the phone numbers, so that's basically about it. Let
Speaker 2: me take a break here on night Side. Give you
Speaker 2: time and temperature nine thirty seventy five degrees.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We're back, everybody. I'm Morgan is night Side. Dan Ray
Speaker 2: is off. He's off for the whole week, so he
Speaker 2: should be back next week August twelfth.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 2: Hopefully I will be here Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Ben
Speaker 2: Parker will be here tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Ben.
Speaker 2: You hear him doing news here on BZ and I'm
Speaker 2: sure Ben will have a strong show planned for you
Speaker 2: and my show tonight, I started off with William Keck calmnesst.
Speaker 2: He's been doing calms for entertainment tonight nationally inquire all
Speaker 2: the publications people and they had a good hour with him.
Speaker 2: Right now, I'm talking with teacher Terry. Now, Terry, are
Speaker 2: there any other ancillary items and if you need to
Speaker 2: make a separate classification for elementary versus junior high kids
Speaker 2: versus high school kids, tell me suggestions on what the
Speaker 2: items that you would like to purchase for your.
Speaker 4: Children will be, depending on once again, depending on the
Speaker 4: school district, there will be calculators that you will be
Speaker 4: asked to get. Certainly for students who are taking higher
Speaker 4: math classes in high school, you may be asked to
Speaker 4: purchase computers, depending on what the school district itself has
Speaker 4: as a computer policy. Frequently, I know in Springfield parents
Speaker 4: are not asked to purchase computers. The city purchases computers
Speaker 4: for the students and they get one in first grade
Speaker 4: and have it straight until they graduate from high school.
Speaker 4: And obviously there are updates made and it's a computer breaks,
Speaker 4: so you get a new computer and all kinds of
Speaker 4: other things that are added to that. But I think
Speaker 4: one of the most important things isn't actually what you
Speaker 4: buy your students. I think one of the most important
Speaker 4: things that you can do is two of the most
Speaker 4: important things. One is please make sure they go to
Speaker 4: bed at a reasonable hour at night. Having an elementary
Speaker 4: student stay up until eleven o'clock when their older brother
Speaker 4: goes to bed isn't really helpful for the students. They
Speaker 4: need to have enough sleep so that they are awake
Speaker 4: and ready to learn at seven o'clock in the morning
Speaker 4: or whatever time they go into school. Secondarily, if you
Speaker 4: are bringing the student to school, please bring them on time,
Speaker 4: because if you get into a pattern from the beginning
Speaker 4: of the year of coming five minutes late, then it
Speaker 4: becomes ten minutes late. Then pretty soon they're missing the
Speaker 4: first hour of school and that learning time doesn't come
Speaker 4: back to them. So if they're starting out with maths,
Speaker 4: they may have missed the entire math time and it
Speaker 4: will certainly affect their learning. And I don't say it
Speaker 4: will affect their grade. It will affect their learning because
Speaker 4: the grade is based on what they have learned. So
Speaker 4: if you are dedicated to your child learning and doing
Speaker 4: the best they can do, two of the best things
Speaker 4: that you can do is one, give them an early bedtime,
Speaker 4: whether that's eight o'clock or eight thirty. Some students I
Speaker 4: know go to bed at seven point thirty. They have
Speaker 4: to get up early in the morning as it is,
Speaker 4: and they have pretty full days. So let them sleep.
Speaker 4: And secondarily, make sure that they're getting to school whenever
Speaker 4: they can get to school, and that is, make sure
Speaker 4: that they're there and they're there on time.
Speaker 2: And to me, I'm peeking behind the curtain. Your teacher,
Speaker 2: you've done this for decades. I'm not going to put
Speaker 2: a specific year on your experience, but you've seen let's
Speaker 2: do it future tens. Come September. You will see the
Speaker 2: kids who didn't give enough sleep last night. You will
Speaker 2: see the kids who do to any number of reasons,
Speaker 2: mom and dad or grandparents or whomever, they're supposed to
Speaker 2: be in the seats by eight o'clock and they don't
Speaker 2: get to school till eight ten, eight point fifteen, and
Speaker 2: every now and then, yeah, okay, it happens, but multiply
Speaker 2: that times twenty four kids in a classroom, there's supposed
Speaker 2: to be twenty four kids by eight o'clock and they're nineteen.
Speaker 2: That means there are four or five or six kids
Speaker 2: that for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: You're late. Make it up.
Speaker 2: On the other end, leave the house five or ten
Speaker 2: minutes earlier than you usually do, and that'll correct that.
Speaker 2: Put you in a bed at seven point thirty quarter
Speaker 2: of eight eight o'clock.
Speaker 4: Yes, and get into a routine, because it will help
Speaker 4: them to be on time. It will help help you
Speaker 4: to be on time. Have a routine, Have the same
Speaker 4: thing that you're doing over and over so that it's
Speaker 4: the habit. We have the habit. We're going to school.
Speaker 4: We have the habit where we leave now, put the
Speaker 4: clothes out the night before, Do whatever you need to
Speaker 4: do to help yourself to make it easier. Because when
Speaker 4: things are done by routine, children know what to expect
Speaker 4: and they move along much more easily. When oh it
Speaker 4: could be like this today or that tomorrow, or oh
Speaker 4: well we have this going on, and so you know,
Speaker 4: I want to go grocery shopping today, so I'm not
Speaker 4: going to be able to pick you up on time.
Speaker 4: So I'm not even going to take you to school.
Speaker 4: You know, those are just not they're not helpful in
Speaker 4: the learning of anyone. And you just use anyone.
Speaker 2: You use the five letter word learn, learn, And that's
Speaker 2: why we put them in a classroom. Yes, so they
Speaker 2: can learn math, so they can learn English, grammar, history, geography.
Speaker 2: And believe me, it's not easy. I mean when you're six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
Speaker 2: twelve years old and all of those things are taught
Speaker 2: over four or five six hours of a school day.
Speaker 2: I remember going through it wasn't easy, but I achieved.
Speaker 3: I did it.
Speaker 2: Your kids can do it with your help, Marmy daddy, grandparents, Yes,
Speaker 2: with your help.
Speaker 4: Yes. Support you know, be supportive of yours of your child,
Speaker 4: and be supportive of a good learning environment. So that
Speaker 4: means that you make sure that you are there on
Speaker 4: you know your child is there on time. You're there
Speaker 4: on time to pick them up. You know, all of
Speaker 4: those things. When the teacher calls and asks for conferences, please,
Speaker 4: she wants to brag on the kids and say these
Speaker 4: are the things that they've learned so far, and these
Speaker 4: are areas that they need a little more help.
Speaker 2: All right now, about a minute away from another break.
Speaker 2: I know you focus on elementary age kids, but you
Speaker 2: can comment on junior high age kids. You can comment
Speaker 2: on high school age kids and their needs. Although maybe
Speaker 2: a bit different when you compare them to their younger
Speaker 2: brother and sister, there's still things that if you achieve.
Speaker 3: It, it makes.
Speaker 2: Their school day, school week, school months, school year go
Speaker 2: by with a lot more smoothness.
Speaker 3: And let me come back, let you and I talk
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: And I've only got terry to the top of the hour,
Speaker 2: So if you want to call in and let us
Speaker 2: know what your specific perspective happens to be on this subject.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. This is Nightside, Dan's off for the week.
Speaker 2: I am here tonight. My name Morgan White Junior. I
Speaker 2: welcome you to join us here at Nightside time and
Speaker 2: temperature nine forty five seventy five degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ Teams Radio.
Speaker 2: During the course of an evening of Nightside, I guarantee
Speaker 2: you I say what I'm about to say at least
Speaker 2: two dozen times and more. Dan is Off tonight. I'm
Speaker 2: Morgan Morgan White Junior. Been a part of the broadcasting
Speaker 2: on WBZ since the mid nineties. I have my own
Speaker 2: show on Saturday nights, heard at ten o'clock, but periodically,
Speaker 2: when Dan needs to be away from the microphone, I
Speaker 2: get a call for my boss to come in and
Speaker 2: do said night, and I'll be here obviously for the
Speaker 2: rest of tonight, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Michigan and speak to my buddy Matt.
Speaker 2: Who's called in Matt. Do they have schools in Detroit?
Speaker 5: Sometimes? I wonder That was one of my tactics. I
Speaker 5: was wondering. I was wondering if you guys in Boston, Well,
Speaker 5: I mean with the weather, you certainly do. But nowadays
Speaker 5: one of my daughters is so frustrated because both her
Speaker 5: and or husband worked and they have so many snow days.
Speaker 5: You know that it seems like I'm taking how could
Speaker 5: they call school offer this a little bit of snow?
Speaker 5: When I went, I tell the truth, I never recall
Speaker 5: having snow days. Well, back in our day, we have a.
Speaker 2: Rule in Massachusetts that a school year must consist of
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty days. That's ironclad rule. And somehow
Speaker 2: with school vacations in December, in February, and in April
Speaker 2: a week at a time, and the holidays that crop
Speaker 2: up in the year. We hit that one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty mark consistently every year, and the winters have been
Speaker 2: much kinder over the past I'll say.
Speaker 3: Three or four years.
Speaker 2: But every now and then we get the types of
Speaker 2: storms that will cancel school.
Speaker 3: And you know, what are you going to do?
Speaker 5: But my point is that these days that they call
Speaker 5: our schools in Michigan, it's unbelievably, you know, a small
Speaker 5: amount of precipitation. I can't believe in My daughter feels
Speaker 5: the same ways. I just don't understand it, and you know,
Speaker 5: but I always tell my kids, and they find it
Speaker 5: hard to believe. In the twelve years that I went
Speaker 5: to school, I never rode a school bus, not once,
Speaker 5: and I walked everywhere that I had to go in
Speaker 5: one of the walks.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: My other elementary school years were half to three quarters
Speaker 5: of a mile. But I never rode a school bus
Speaker 5: in all my years.
Speaker 2: And I'm the same way whenever my high school years
Speaker 2: I took the tea. I was fortunate enough for my
Speaker 2: elementary school years that my mother dropped me off at school.
Speaker 2: Walking to a friend's house where I would stay from
Speaker 2: school closing to when my mother got off of work
Speaker 2: was easily just a block and a half.
Speaker 3: We made it happen. We made it work.
Speaker 4: I do hear the frustration. I do hear the frustration
Speaker 4: of people when school is canceled. I know out here
Speaker 4: we cancel not only for snow days, but we cancel
Speaker 4: for days when it's too hot, days when it's too cold.
Speaker 4: So I get it. And having school start two hours
Speaker 4: late is not helpful to parents who have to work,
Speaker 4: and having school be released early is not helpful. I
Speaker 4: know all of those things, and I know the frustration
Speaker 4: of working parents, And you know, I think overall, this
Speaker 4: is a topic that's bigger than just school, and it
Speaker 4: has to do with the economy and the fact that
Speaker 4: we live in a society with two working parents. And
Speaker 4: you know, school is set up as as a daycare
Speaker 4: place for the students to be. They're there to learn,
Speaker 4: but they're also there because mom and dad are at work,
Speaker 4: and you know that. You know, in the nineteen fifties,
Speaker 4: that's not the way it was. And even I went
Speaker 4: to school in the seventies and my mom didn't work.
Speaker 4: My dad worked, and my mom stayed home. Even when
Speaker 4: she had four kids in school, she was there waiting
Speaker 4: for each of us when we got home from school
Speaker 4: and put us, you know, off to school. And we
Speaker 4: didn't ever have any other babysitters. Yeah, exactly, My kids
Speaker 4: were different. I worked, my husband worked, and that's what
Speaker 4: we had to do. And that's what most families have
Speaker 4: to do today. So I think it is an overall
Speaker 4: that's that's a problem. It's an economic problem as well
Speaker 4: as a school problem.
Speaker 2: By the way, you Matt, Matt, Matt, hold on, Matt,
Speaker 2: this is Terry. Terry, this is Matt, and I just
Speaker 2: wanted to introduce the two of you to one another.
Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, Terry, you brought up an interesting another point,
Speaker 5: you know, besides the snow, the heat. I went to
Speaker 5: a parochial grade school to where I had to wear
Speaker 5: a suit and a shirt and a tie every day,
Speaker 5: and we didn't have air conditioning. And I mean, even
Speaker 5: if they opened up the windows a little bit, it
Speaker 5: was still awfu hot in May and the early part
Speaker 5: of June, because as we used to get out the
Speaker 5: seventh sordes of June and it was hot and we
Speaker 5: couldn't loosen the tie or anything. It was I didn't
Speaker 5: even think about that. That's a that's another right, No.
Speaker 4: I mean, I remember sitting in elementary school. I remember
Speaker 4: sitting in high school and it being very hot and
Speaker 4: not having air conditioning. And that's just the way it was.
Speaker 4: That that is just simply the way it was. And
Speaker 4: that's you know, that is not the way it is
Speaker 4: for kids today. All the way around.
Speaker 5: I had a couple of couple other issues.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: I had my questions and comments. Works up for Allison,
Speaker 5: uh so all positive. Of course, let me say.
Speaker 2: This Terry was supposed to be on Wednesday, the first
Speaker 2: star of Nightside. I will call Allison's agent tomorrow and
Speaker 2: see if I can slide her in then. So watch
Speaker 2: this space and we'll find out if I am able
Speaker 2: to get Alison and grim On, and if it will
Speaker 2: be the eight to nine o'clock hour of night Side
Speaker 2: on Wednesday.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll be listening during the rest of the week.
Speaker 5: That creates another problem. I also enjoy speaking with Bradley,
Speaker 5: So I have to make a choice that appears if
Speaker 5: you get Alison on Wednesday, to leave between her and.
Speaker 3: Bradley pick one. I will.
Speaker 5: Bradley, I'm sorry, but anyway, I had one more question
Speaker 5: for Jerry if I.
Speaker 3: Really quick, I'm almost out of time, real quick.
Speaker 5: All right, gifts for I have a granddaughter that's in
Speaker 5: approaching the fourth grade, I'm sorry, the second grade, and
Speaker 5: a grandson this in the first grade. I always at
Speaker 5: this age I'm looking for gifts. Do you have anything
Speaker 5: off the top of your head that might be a
Speaker 5: good choice for kids of that age?
Speaker 4: Well, I personally I love giving books to two kids
Speaker 4: and starting first and second grade. I would look at
Speaker 4: something they call transitional reader readers, and those could be
Speaker 4: anything from like a Junie B. Jones book to Magic
Speaker 4: Treehouse series. I love the Magic Treehouse series. It takes
Speaker 4: them on a lot of different adventures. It's not really
Speaker 4: a boy or girl kind of book. It's it has
Speaker 4: a boy and a girl in it, so it's it's
Speaker 4: just there's a lot of adventures that can happen there.
Speaker 4: And Cam Janssen, Cam r c Am Cam Jansen is another.
Speaker 4: Those are other good books.
Speaker 1: That I like.
Speaker 4: Get it. There are a lot of new series that
Speaker 4: are coming out and I hate to do.
Speaker 2: This, guys, Okay, I've got to hit news in literally
Speaker 2: fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3: So Matt, thank you for call.
Speaker 2: Terry, thank you, thank you for being available on such
Speaker 2: short notice.
Speaker 3: And you know how important you are to the show.
Speaker 4: It works, It works.
Speaker 3: Works, Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll speak to you later and everybody else,
Speaker 2: the Winnakers, Bill and Bo will be joining us after
Speaker 2: these messages and news here on BZ.
Speaker 3: Will you hear night
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