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Phone Tap PODCAST: Kindergarten Movie Lessons · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: I'm Bradley Johnson with one eight hundred duy away. Not
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  Speaker 1: getting behind the wheel after drinking is the best choice.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're pulled over, the next best choice it's
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  Speaker 1: to call one eight hundred duy away. Time for your
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  Speaker 1: brand new phone tap. It's broken jewel in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: and today I call a kindergarten teacher to let her
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  Speaker 1: know that there's going to be some changes in the
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  Speaker 1: way she'll be educating her students from now on. It's
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  Speaker 1: a brand new program that I'm one hundred percent sure
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  Speaker 1: she's never heard of before. But good news is she's
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  Speaker 1: a lucky teacher who gets selected to test it out.
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  Speaker 1: Here what it is in your phone tap? Right now?
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  Speaker 1: It's another on the twenties. I'm moving ninety two point five.
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  Speaker 1: Hello this Jessica. Oh, hi, Jessica, how are you? My
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  Speaker 1: name is Paul Long, and I'm the executive director of
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  Speaker 1: the school district. I don't think we've ever met before
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  Speaker 1: in person. Oh I don't think so. Hi, how are
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  Speaker 1: you not too bad? Thank you for asking? Just so
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  Speaker 1: you know. I'm a part of the Education and Curriculum department. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not calling it a bad time. I am I
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  Speaker 1: have a few minutes, definitely, I'm just creating some papers.
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  Speaker 1: It's perfect, okay, wonderful. We are trying something new in
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  Speaker 1: the district to help out our kidren gardeners make better
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  Speaker 1: life choices, and vice principal suggested that we tried in
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  Speaker 1: your classroom first, so this is a little different. One
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  Speaker 1: week out of the school year, we would like to
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  Speaker 1: show clips of famous movies and see how the characters
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  Speaker 1: deal with real life issues and maybe the kids can
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  Speaker 1: take something away from the viewing experience. I love that idea.
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  Speaker 1: Kids are so into watching videos. I think they would
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  Speaker 1: be really unpoor. I think so too, And we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to just show the typical Disney type of movies.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. There's the movie The Amityville Horror.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of that one? Yeah? I think
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  Speaker 1: I have. Yeah, that's the one where family moves into
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  Speaker 1: a haunted house. All types of bad things happen. And
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  Speaker 1: I know they're pretty young, but it's never too young
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  Speaker 1: to ask if there's been a murder at the house. Right, Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: are you joking? No? Does it sound like a joke?
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like that movie could be a little mature. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the point. Kids are growing up quicker these days,
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  Speaker 1: and we think it's important that we show them real
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  Speaker 1: life situations. And I think that's a really good idea.
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  Speaker 1: I just I can imagine the kids in my classroom,
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  Speaker 1: and I think if they watch that specific movie, there
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  Speaker 1: might be a lot of crying and just scared little kids. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there probably will be a few tiers. Some
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  Speaker 1: scary nights at home might just be worth it to
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  Speaker 1: teach our children some important life lessons. I wonder what
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  Speaker 1: the parents' reaction might be anything. It might be a
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  Speaker 1: little apprehensive about that, you know, I would think they'd
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  Speaker 1: be on board with it, and we're just gonna go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and start it and find out. I'll send you
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  Speaker 1: a full list of movies. Another movie, though, that I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go over with you is from The Purge.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen that movie I have? Yeah, yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 1: sum it up for you. It's just a film about
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  Speaker 1: one night where there are no rules and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of bad stuff happens, but you can't get in trouble
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  Speaker 1: for it. So what would we be hoping that going
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  Speaker 1: to take away from that? Well, let's say you have
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  Speaker 1: a troublemaker in your class and showing this movie, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe we give him permission to do whatever he wants
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  Speaker 1: just for one day and it gets it out of
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  Speaker 1: his system and I'm sure the rest of the school
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  Speaker 1: year will be well behaved. So maybe a purge day
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  Speaker 1: for him, you know. Just the more that I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: about it and I'm hearing about it, I just don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I'm the right person to try all this
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  Speaker 1: out first, Like, maybe there would be someone who could
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  Speaker 1: be a better No, no, no, we thought you would
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  Speaker 1: be perfect. Your principle and your vice principle both recommended you.
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  Speaker 1: They said that your classroom would be a great place
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  Speaker 1: to kick this off. I just don't feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: completely on board. Well, maybe the problem is I haven't
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  Speaker 1: given you the best movie yet. Let me give you
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  Speaker 1: another example, and then you can be the judge. We thought.
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  Speaker 1: Another movie with really good life lessons is the movie Contagion.
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  Speaker 1: You know that one. It came out a few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: It's where someone dies from the flu, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: the flu, and a bunch of people just start dying
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  Speaker 1: all over the world. There's a lot of death. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just worry that kindergarteners aren't really prepared to deal
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  Speaker 1: with this. Well maybe they aren't, but I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you what kindergarteners are, and they are filthy. And watching
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  Speaker 1: that movie where a bunch of people die from one
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  Speaker 1: person being sick could give them the important lesson of
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  Speaker 1: wash your hands after use the restroom every time. You
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  Speaker 1: could even use that in your classroom. If you see,
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  Speaker 1: let's say you see little Johnny not wash his hands,
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  Speaker 1: you could say, little Johnny, if you don't wash your hands,
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  Speaker 1: your eyes are going to turn to soup and blood's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be pouring down your cheeks. Do you want that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I would ever say that. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: you did, I'm sure that would get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I'm never really comfortable with my kids
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  Speaker 1: seeing movies with some bloodshed, and I don't feel comfortable
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  Speaker 1: telling a kid that his eyes are going to turn
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  Speaker 1: to soup or all right, well, I guess then I'll
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  Speaker 1: just have to tell you this is a prank phone call.
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  Speaker 1: That's a bummer. Yes, this is actually Jewel from Brook
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  Speaker 1: and Jewel in the morning doing a phone tap on
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  Speaker 1: you and your vice principal set you up. Hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is not real, he said. He was telling you the
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  Speaker 1: district was going to try out some new things and
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  Speaker 1: wanted to freak you out a little bit. Oh well,
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  Speaker 1: it worked. I was so freaked out. I think you
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  Speaker 1: should take my advice on the whole hand washing thing. Like,
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  Speaker 1: if you show them that movie, I'm sure they'll start
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  Speaker 1: washing their hands. They lost their hands, all right, and
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  Speaker 1: they'll probably not Who needs sleep, right, wake up every
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  Speaker 1: morning to kill it. The