Jacobin Show: Public Education Post-Pandemic w/ Megan Erickson, Rebecca Garelli and Jay O'Neal

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🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from May 12, 2021, hosted by Paul as Jen and Ariella are out.

Jacobin editor and educator Megan Erickson, leader of Arizona Educators United Rebecca Garelli, and West Virginian union activist Jay O'Neal all joins us to discuss rebuilding public education after a year of pandemic lockdowns. We also examine "woke" charter schools and the COVID-era resurgence of politicians demonizing teachers' unions.

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0:00.0	Good evening. Welcome to another episode of the Jackamons show. I am Paul Prescott. Usually
0:24.0	Janet Jenner or Arela would be with me but both are off tonight and actually Arela is close to
0:30.0	having a baby so she might make cameos from you know here and then but she'll be going on
0:36.8	maternity leave soon. So tonight I'll be joined by our great producer. Everyone's favorite
0:42.8	poster, the great young kale. I don't know but everyone's favorite poster but I appreciate the
0:49.8	intro. Right. My favorite poster at least. Thank you. How's it going? Pretty good. How are you doing?
0:57.9	Doing well. Doing pretty well. Excited about tonight's show. I don't want to I don't want to
1:04.2	excerpt you right now. If you want to give us the introduction for what we're talking about,
1:07.9	we're going to be talking all things public education which of course is near and dear. To my
1:12.2	heart we're going to have Megan Erickson who's a writer and editor at Jackamon who writes a lot
1:17.3	about education. We're going to have two red-for-edge strike leaders Rebecca Garelli from Arizona
1:23.5	and Jay O'Neill from West Virginia who both played critical roles in the great red-for-red
1:28.8	teacher strike wave in 2018 so I'm really pumped for that. Yeah and Paul you're also a public high school
1:36.6	teacher. Yes. Maybe even before we get started with them maybe it makes sense to ask you how
1:43.6	has been you know you've been teaching now for I think like a year and a half now in the pandemic?
1:48.4	How has that been going? Yeah since about last mid-March or early April. Yeah I mean it's crazy. I
1:56.6	don't know how it's to say it but I mean obviously and I've talked about in the show before about
2:00.9	you know what we've been dealing with and teachers across the country about unsafe reopening.
2:06.0	I've been pretty fortunate that we've stayed virtual and we just actually went back in the
2:11.3	buildings and ninth graders are coming back they started on Monday only a few have chosen to come
2:18.1	back but you know obviously virtual is not ideal you know but as I said kind of in a segment I
2:25.6	did a while ago you know it's not like there's no learning happening so I think many schools you
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