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Phone Tap: Suggestions for the Substitute · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: Today, we call a substitute teacher who's filling in for
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  Speaker 1: a fourth grade class. The original teachers out on maternity leave,
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  Speaker 1: so the new one's only been there for about a
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  Speaker 1: week so far. But still, that's plenty of time for
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  Speaker 1: one parent to come up with a long list of
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  Speaker 1: critiques and teaching adjustments that she thinks she needs to make,
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  Speaker 1: and Brooks list ranges from the mildly unreasonable to completely insane,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see how she handles it.
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  Speaker 2: And your phones appen right now. Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Hi is this Jamie? Yes, Hi, Jamie. My name is Heather.
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  Speaker 3: My son Caleb is in your fourth grade class. Oh Caleb, Yes, Hi,
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  Speaker 3: Ue to meet you.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to meet you too. Caleb is such a great kid.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you're being serious? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You obviously don't live with him. Oh no, agree, he's
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  Speaker 3: very attentive in class. Good to hear the medications working.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: So, the reason I'm calling is I know you're new
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  Speaker 2: and filling it for Miss Jennifer who's on maternity leave.
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  Speaker 3: So it looks like your first.
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  Speaker 2: Week isn't going as well as when Miss Jennifer is
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  Speaker 2: in charge.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't what do you mean? I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand we're having a great week.
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  Speaker 2: Well you might be, but Caleb comes home and says
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  Speaker 2: he's not happy or fulfilled.
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  Speaker 1: He uses that word fulfilled.
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  Speaker 3: He does.
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  Speaker 2: He knows lots of big words. You should teach him
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  Speaker 2: some more. Oh yeah, I mean we're working. I thought
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  Speaker 2: we could just go over a few things that Miss
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer does to help, and maybe you could adopt them too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you could do them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh well, I'm open to hearing what they are.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So number one is I need you to stop
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  Speaker 2: riding on the whiteboard with your left.
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  Speaker 3: Hand with my left hand, though maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: In this class, because it's very confusing for Caleb.
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  Speaker 3: He's right handed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, Caleb's his right handed I noticed, but
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  Speaker 2: he can write with his right hand.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's adapt. Okay, let's adapt.
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  Speaker 2: So just put it in your other hand that pin,
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  Speaker 2: you know, seems pretty simple. Oh well, and I'd also
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  Speaker 2: like you to prepare a hot cup of tea for
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  Speaker 2: Caleb each morning when he arrives.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Jennifer would do that with a.
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  Speaker 2: Little slice eleven. But I won't ask that of you.
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  Speaker 2: That maybe asking too much. Wow, I'm going to have
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  Speaker 2: to talk to the vice principle about this. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know anything about them. Something else you might not know
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  Speaker 2: is Caleb lost part of his finger in an accident
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  Speaker 2: at home.
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  Speaker 3: I have it in a ziplock in the freezer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry I did.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's okay. It happened a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: But Miss Jennifer would always let him bring it in
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  Speaker 2: for show and tell, pass it around the room. He
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  Speaker 2: would like pass his finger to other kids. I don't
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  Speaker 2: understand just from that first knuckle up is what got severed.
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  Speaker 3: So the kids love it. They love it.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, though, I'll have him bring it in
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  Speaker 2: a cooler because there was a problem with smell last time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, darn little thing heats up like a Frankfurter for.
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  Speaker 3: Those little ones like you have it the your dervs.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Mom.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, but I need to go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh shoot, yeah, yeah, you know what. I just have
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  Speaker 2: one more thing to ask you. I know your time
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  Speaker 2: is so important, So I was just wondering. This isn't
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  Speaker 2: really a formal.
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  Speaker 3: Request, but just an option.
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  Speaker 2: Are you interested in making Caleb's lunch every day? No?
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  Speaker 2: I like your reaction there, It's just that I'm so
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  Speaker 2: busy with work. And I heard you don't have any children,
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  Speaker 2: so I can pay you two dollars per lunch. Yet, no,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's not clear boundaries.
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  Speaker 3: That's forty dollars a month.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Good, And I can't imagine what they pay substitute teachers.
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  Speaker 3: I bet you need that. Oh wow, yeah, you know
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  Speaker 3: what the no crust and only organic berries? Can you
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  Speaker 3: make that happen?
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  Speaker 2: This is really crossing a line.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't think miss Jennifer was doing all these things.
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  Speaker 1: I find it very hard to believe.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know who you should ask? Because you should
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  Speaker 3: actually ask a teacher that you work with named Annie.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know Miss Annie? Miss Annie?
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  Speaker 2: Because she's the one that wants you to listen to
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  Speaker 2: the radio show Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning so
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  Speaker 2: you can hear the prank phone call we're doing on you.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, right now, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: What what is that, Julie Brooke, we're doing a phone
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  Speaker 2: tap on you? Oh my god, Miss Annie, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: kill her. Well, it wasn't just her, apparently it was
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  Speaker 2: her and all the other teachers. They wanted to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that you were welcome, since you're kind of n God,
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  Speaker 2: I played hard. Is like racing right now, Like I wonder,
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  Speaker 2: Oh your heart was racing because you couldn't wait to
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  Speaker 2: see that little severed finger. Huh oh, yeah, I couldn't wait.
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  Speaker 3: It's a real hit with the kids.
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  Speaker 2: Wake Up every morning was phone tap weekday mornings on
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  Speaker 2: the twenties, brooking Jeffrey in the morning,