Our program today, The Problem We All Live With. It didn't go so well. Throughout a part of the podcast Nikole Hannah Jones and Ira Glass discuss desegregation in schools. And she just really got to know me. I didn't even get halfway to the microphone because of what the parents were saying. She is going to be OK.". I still have it to this day. Because when I got there, they had their little cheerleading squad cheering for us when we walked through the door-- "Welcome to Francis Howell," cheers like that. Our website, thisamericanlife.org. This was wrong, and that was cold-hearted. He did that because he said St. Louis's white suburbs shared the blame for the segregation in the city schools. Cameron and other students finished in five minutes. I just want to remind everybody that this timeline, nor this solution, are solutions that Francis Howell would have chosen either. That's when the state made a desperation move. This is the transcript for Wiggledancing! Kashlak’s esteemed Chief of Nephrology, Dr Joel Topf @kidney_boy walks us through the evaluation and differentiation of nephrotic syndrome and glomerulonephritis. I don't want to keep flip-flopping between schools, so I'm hopeful that I'll stay. So the state says, "We've taken you over. This American Life: #563: The Problem We All Live With - Part Two August 9, 2015 7:50 PM - Subscribe Last week we looked at a school district integrating by accident. 1,000. This week, we pivot from psychology and politics to religion and history as we explore how people have tried to resolve these fears. I'm a product of busing myself. Act Two: Sixteen Candles Can Lead To A Lot Of Fire. Then, after things were going not so bad, a new plan was constructed. She checked into those, but even with financial aid, she couldn't afford private school either. Your zip code is the anchor that traps you. Nikole says there's one reform that people have pretty much given up Then I was like, "Something's wrong. Because I feel like if I was to run away, if I was to come back, she was winning. So integration works. I was a great student. Last week, we spoke with psychologist Sheldon Solomon about the fear of death and how it shapes our actions. And there was this time when I was in middle school, there was a pool on our side of town. By the time Mah'Ria got to middle school, little things started happening that begin to worry Nedra even more. The way the transfer law works, the failing district has to pay to educate its students, even if they leave. But the few black parents who stand up to speak have a remarkably different memory of the exact same period of time. Something is wrong." So Nedra found herself back in her car on lunch breaks, making calls. It's made up of one high school, the one that Michael Brown attended, a middle school, and five elementary schools. What?" Rockwell's first assignment for Look magazine was an illustration of a six-year-old African-American school girl being escorted by four U.S. marshals to her first day at an all-white school in New Orleans. "Friend like that" meaning a white friend. I literally, mentally, had a vision of a herd of cattle being pushed on a truck, being herded back to where they came from. She chose Cameron Hensley, a driven honor student. A school system got integration and Nikole got to see what happens to the kids, what happens with the parents, which is not pretty, and what happens with the politics in modern day America, when school desegregation shows up uninvited to the table by any of the usual people in charge. on education and the various kinds of school reforms administrators have tried to close the achievement Not many! And then that morning, one by one, they called and said they couldn't come. And so if you picture that out if we had kept going, when we had cut it by half, I don't know that we would have eliminated it totally, because there's a long history here. That is the overall score for the entire country. Summary Continued Summary Continued Mah'Ria finished eight grade in the Francis Howell school district with what Jones says "sounds like an integration fairy tale". She decided to stay. Every day, I would see her in the hall and we smiled very big. Mah'Ria had never had a friend who was white before. By pulling Ruby from 1960 to today, I wanted to speak to the racial injustice that still plagues us. Although this is a given for deaf audiences, those not afflicted by hearing difficulty would also enjoy the ability to read through transcripts, and avoid the distractions and discomfort listening may potentially cause. Moving start times up 20 minutes, maybe 40 minutes? We promised that we would fix this wrong. Listen Now. The teacher told her that she had too many kids in her class to call all their parents. Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. This week, we … Because that sense of desperation, it was a burden. Songs start at @@cheapestTrackPrice@@. I didn't expect to make a friend that fast, because I remember I think it was after my third or fourth hour, I had went to lunch. I personally know a family in the Fox School District that was shopping for houses in our school district. I didn't think it would be like that. It has never happened. Mah'Ria was watching it all on the monitors in an overflow room. Podcast: This American Life: The Problem We All Live With, No. So when they got to the mic, they aren't just talking about the current situation. If you're just tuning in, we're telling the story of the Normandy School District that Michael Brown graduated from. I love her. (11 minutes), Nikole Hannah-Jones reports on a school district that accidentally stumbled on an integration program Her mom told her she could if she wanted to. We are talking about violent behavior that is coming in with my first-grader, my third-grader, and my middle schooler that I'm very worried about. Because of the transfer law, Normandy schools And then there was another pool on the other side of town. But race barely comes up that night, except when white parents insist it is not the issue. Alicia Garza is a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement and the principal at Black Futures Lab. So I'm hoping that their discipline records come with them, like their health records come with them. After a week, you was ready to go crazy, because you're not used to nobody calling you out your name. The Problem We All Live With, 1964. Well, honestly, I thought, "Well, how many parents are going to want to get their kids up early and send them to a school 30 miles down the highway?" So one of them offered a helpful solution. Again, here's Nikole Hannah Jones. What does that mean?" In the schools where white families chose to stay, test scores for black transfer students rose. To be clear, Normandy did not lose its accreditation because of violence. I mean, there was really one generation of school desegregation. 562 and No.563 alexisagrelablogs Uncategorized March 25, 2018 2 Minutes These podcasts back-to-back were so interesting to listen to. She's standing in a crowd of onlookers, a few feet from where her son was shot down, where he would lie face down on the concrete for four hours, dead. I deserve to not have to worry about my children getting stabbed, or taking a drug, or getting robbed. And at Rihanna's graduation, the vice president of the Missouri State Board of Education spoke. That's at The New York Times website. And so today, we thought we would put it on the table and talk about it. With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas. Mah'Ria's thriving. Click here to read our privacy policy. And Elisa Crouch's article in St Louis Dispatch that documented the day in the life of one Normandy senior is here. I mean, because it was packed. Normandy officials chose a district called Francis Howell. They don't have that effect of kids who can help boost them. She said she thought about Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend an all white elementary school in the South. You just never felt like you belonged or it was your school. A mother named Beth Cirami approaches the microphone. We're doing the things that improve instruction. Is federal law enforcement ready for Biden's inauguration after the security failure on Capitol Hill in last week's Trump-incited riot? Episode #2 Transcript Below: BIDEN. After a lot of resistance, many school districts went through desegregation battles, but St. Louis came to it extraordinarily late. When I hear this, and I've written about these types of schools for a long time--. Nikole Hannah Jones, she's a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Nobody knew just how bad it was going to turn out. She was one of the students who was bussed out of St. Louis when she was a kid. And it was great. And for the most part, it worked. Buy the album for $0.99. Volume 60%. MORE Charter schools, turnaround schools and small schools are all experiments that are supposed to improve schools for mostly poor, minority kids. ", And let me assure you. Under the law, while Normandy students can enroll in any nearby accredited district, Normandy has to provide transportation to just one. Nikole Hannah Jones. After years of resistance, St. Louis had created the largest and most successful metro-wide desegregation program in the country. She'd brought it just in case something like this happened. I watched this over and over. And the bad schools were mostly black and Latino, the good schools mostly white. Because I started getting a little teary eyed. It's just that, in most of the country, no one is even trying. So they're proposing charter schools and virtual school programs that students would attend. Most Recent Podcast 4 Rhythms to Renew Your Mind. I was at a point of desperation. So she told me, and I'm like, "Oh, my Jesus. She told them Mah'Ria was an honor student at Francis Howell and that she stood out on the volleyball team. Others denounced his "liberal" ways using derogatory language. It was hard for Rihanna but she ended up having a good year. The district is called Normandy. The school stayed open, but this rare event triggered a little known Missouri law called the transfer law. I looked around. So--. The Normandy Schools Collaborative. These kids in these classes in schools of concentrated poverty don't have that. In the meantime, a group of parents, including Nedra, had filed a lawsuit against the state and were crossing their fingers that a judge would intervene. The Wiggles logo was shown in the blue background while the instrumental version of Get Ready To Wiggle is playing in the background with a montage with silent clips of Greg fromWiggle Time!,Racing to the RainbowandWiggledancing! Normandy is the worst district in the state of Missouri. And what she noticed was that it never worked. And so socially, it was very difficult. My first week there, this girl, she tried me like-- how can I say this? Well, if you don't want students to leave your district, one way to keep them is to make leaving inconvenient. She says at some point Mr. Drummer gave the two students a worksheet. My parents told me to get on the bus and go to school, and I went where the bus took me. He wrote in his ruling, "Every day a student attends an unaccredited school, the child could suffer harm that cannot be repaired." gap that never seem to work. And then another name gets called. Investigating school segregation in 2018 with Nikole Hannah-Jones: podcast & transcript. Now and then, one of them jumped in. Faron Yoder lives in Amish country in Indiana. And the same thing is said, "We know we need to do." This is a transcript of a recorded podcast. And that is how Missouri accidentally launched a school integration plan in what was an unfashionably late year for such a thing-- 2013. She's continued to do well. The year the Supreme Court handed down the Brown versus Board of Education ruling banning school segregation, St. Louis was the second largest segregated school district in the country. Want to learn more about SEO, digital marketing, conversion optimization, ecommerce? I reached out to her several times and she didn't want to talk. Once Normandy comes in here, will that lower our accreditation? Everyone's behind. It's hard to imagine a bar lower than that. We are. Why would we keep pushing forward when the legislature may make us close? This is a commitment to education issue. Nedra Martin remembers getting the letter when Mah'Ria was at a camp for the Francis Howell volleyball team. And now we're open to them, and now you want to be all mean, talking about how you're afraid of how big the class is going to be, the violence in the schools. St. Louis school districts finally desegregated Dec 3, 1999. Normandy is on the border of Last week we looked at a school district integrating by accident. Do you remember that conversation at home? Nedra's older daughter went to Normandy too. The Problem We All Live With: Part Two. How dare you. Tell me what does turning around Normandy look like. We have to follow the laws. To get up in this town hall meeting, you would think it was a celebrity in town or something. I'm just going to say, she's an awesome child, OK? When the law was passed, no one thought an entire district would lose accreditation. 4. Because that's the issue. That's called provisional accreditation. This is why after years of studying this, Nikole thinks segregated schools full of poor kids are probably never going to catch up to other schools. And I had to remind myself A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P. And I'm like, my name is Pruitt-Martin. I don't care about the taxes. And when they graduate, they're absolutely going to be behind. I think it's important to point out that it is not that something magical happens when black kids sit in a classroom next to white kids. Maximum Fun podcasts are comedy and culture programs that will entertain and inform you. According to the state, a shiny new name also came with a shiny new accreditation status. We're going to start an early college high school, which kids would earn college credit in high school. The Problem We All Live With, Part I. Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. She met him at Normandy High School in time to head to his first period. And now you have a new accreditation status that has never existed in history of the state.". A quick heads up, somebody uses a racial slur in this first part of the story. We're just stuck there because we're not open to the opportunities. The job is simply too hard. The first person that I met at Francis Howell was Brittany. One mother asked why residents did not get to vote on letting in Normandy kids like they vote on public transportation. They had 40 minutes left. And it's not even on the table. While Normandy is falling apart, over at Francis Howell, none of the things that parents were worried about came true. Plus, a girl who comes up with her own one-woman integration plan. "You can't go back to Francis Howell. That's a mistake. "The Problem We All Live With" was a stark, muted, uncomplicated composition, and the topic! We somehow want this to have been easy and we gave up really fast. Stay with us. I’m Rob Wiblin, Director of Research at 80,000 Hours. It's in a town also called Normandy that borders on Ferguson. Investigating school segregation in 2018 with Nikole Hannah-Jones: podcast & transcript. And so, though she didn't think about it this way, that fall, Mah'Ria joined an old American tradition-- black children headed on buses to heavily white schools that had been forced by the courts to take them. Schools in Missouri get accredited by the state. So instead, the state took over. But the story doesn't start with the woman. [MUSIC - SYL JOHNSON, "IS IT BECAUSE I'M BLACK?"]. On the ride home, Mah'Ria felt intimidated, but she was determined to go to Francis Howell. I'm Ira Glass. And I was like, "Hi, I'm Mah'Ria." You've got to go back to Normandy." Rumors start flying around, they were going to dissolve the district and that students were going to be sent all over, other places. Thoughts on “The Problem We All Live With” By Tech Powered Dad | August 11, 2015 As the the one year anniversary of Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO, This American Life has completed a very thought provoking two part series on the state of school desegregation both in the St. Louis area specifically and the United States as a whole. Find Norman Rockwell’s The Problem We All Live With and shop the official Norman Rockwell Museum Store! If we can’t agree about what is real, or likely to be real, we will never agree about how we should live together. Just see how she was on the bus. Hosted by Ira Glass Aug. 01, 2015. I'm a native of St. Louisan, was part of the deseg program. At a certain point, she grabbed her mom's hand and told her she wanted to speak at the mic. Can I just say, with all due respect, I've had this conversation with superintendents and principals in districts that look just like Normandy and schools that look just like Normandy for more than a decade. I wasn’t… Francis Howell was 85% white. This article has been rated as start-Class. In the 2013 to 2014 school year, Mah'Ria, who we heard in the first half of the show, finished eighth grade at the mostly white Francis Howell School District. This was last August, almost a year ago. So you're right. Back at the height of the St. Louis desegregation program in the 1980s, they had a term for this-- black gold. When Mah'Ria asked the school counselor about it, the counselor told Mah'Ria maybe she wasn't supposed to be there. We went down to the jazz room, the jazz band room, and the instructor was not there. Mah'Ria looked around, surveying the gym-- a sea of 3,000 mostly white faces. The mission-- get Mah'Ria into a better school. CHARLES PEARSON: We need to really create a new Normandy. He's the third superintendent in three years. Don't miss an episode of Houston We Have A Problem. The Image. Actually, what the statistics show is that between 1971, which is where the nation really started doing massive desegregation, and 1988, which was the peak of integration in the United States, 1988 was the peak. I grew up in Waterloo, Iowa. But I've read. And these scores are not just the scores of the specific kids who got bused into white schools. This is a transcript of the Freakonomics Radio podcast “I Don’t Know What You’ve Done With My Husband But He’s a Changed Man” [MUSIC: Christopher Norman, “Word of Prey” (from EP3)] Johnson BORH: All of a sudden we heard of the war. And when you put a lot of kids like that together in one classroom, studies show, it doesn't go well. I get that question all the time. Even then, it was only because black families sued. But if you're doing really bad, you get put on notice. The Problem We All Live With has been listed as a level-5 vital article in an unknown topic. Francis Howell administrators would not talk to me, but best as I can tell, some teachers at the school were horrified by what happened at the parents meeting. The Problem We All Live With is a 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell.It is considered an iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. You guys skipped Pruitt. Desegregation. In all of my years of reporting, I don't think I've ever heard a state official apologize to students for failing to educate them. Mah'Ria started her freshman year at Normandy High School. And we spent that whole entire hour talking about what his ambitions are, his history in the Normandy school system, and how he regretted not leaving. She called Francis Howell administrators and teachers and extolled the virtues of her daughter. In 1999, just 16 years after real desegregation came to St. Louis, the desegregation order ended. People Want to Read. We had to do better. CHARLES PEARSON: No one has ever argued it's OK. No, that's not the argument, that it's OK. CHARLES PEARSON: Yeah, but I'm not saying-- I think it's the reality of where they are, and it's the reality that they're struggling. A lot of Normandy kids opted to stay put, even Rihanna, the girl who was called a racial slur in the lunchroom and was determined to stay at Francis Howell. That's how crowded it was. And I would go to schools, and they would just always be trying these new things that actually sounded like they might work. The Problem We All Live With is a 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell.It is considered an iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. However, our obligation to attempt to do it, it still remains. Or even how to generate more sales? And the students who went through that, some of them, anyway, grew up to be the parents in the Francis Howell gym. 00:00. So, what’s happening here? In one month, I send my three small children to you, and I want to know is there going to be metal detectors? It's This American Life. They have to come back. I mean, they celebrated that the transfer students were there. And its first big move was to give the district a new name. Students who transferred now do not necessarily have the right to stay in that situation. Douglas Carr, the Normandy teacher, says they received no explanation. This is a transcript of the Freakonomics Radio podcast “I Don’t Know What You’ve Done With My Husband But He’s a Changed Man” [MUSIC: Christopher Norman, “Word of Prey” (from EP3)] Johnson BORH: All of a sudden we heard of the war. But that doesn't relieve us of the charge to attempt to do it. Peak of School Integration Dec 3, 1980. Ira speaks with New York Times Magazine Reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones about her years reporting Rockwell's first assignment for Look magazine was an illustration of a six-year-old African-American school girl being escorted by four U.S. marshals to her first day at an all-white school in New Orleans. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. The podcast will discuss the similarities and differences between sex addiction and other addictions. Everybody expected that losing a quarter of the students in the Normandy District would be bad. "Uh, excuse me. The difference between unaccredited and non-accredited, those three letters, changed everything. Production help from Emmanuel Dzotsi. Other editing help for this episode from Neil Drumming. The law says they can't keep the Normandy kids in schools that aren't accredited. We're going to improve teacher quality. You took my son away from me. They also get the worst course offerings, the least access to AP and upper level courses, the worst facilities. That's the highest English class the school offered. I wasn’t really aware that this type of problem was still going on in today’s society. When I asked Nikole if that was fast, she was all like, "Well, black people first arrived on this continent as slaves in 1619. She didn't tell any of her friends at Francis Howell she wasn't coming back, not even Brittany. They will be the first to tell you it was hard, but also that it was necessary. I actually kept telling myself, "The parents aren't the one that's going to the schools. They never called her name. Most Recent Podcast 4 Rhythms to Renew Your Mind. Last month, she completed her freshman year. Summary. Every last one of them. It was great, because I never expected to have a long term friend like that. And you don't want to do it, because then what they heard about you is true. Can you guess? This was advanced placement. It hasn't even been two weeks ago that we've been notified. The problem of death, and the paths to escape it Last week, we spoke with psychologist Sheldon Solomon about the fear of death and how it shapes our actions. 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