A high school boy explains how prom is the culmination of his effort to get in with a cool group of people. (5 minutes)
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Act Four: Quarantweening
Producer Chana Joffe-Walt talks to a seventh grader who doesn’t have a seventh grade, or an eighth grade. (11 minutes)
Act Five: The Leftovers
A week after starting classes, a Covid outbreak forces a university to send students back home.
Act One: Masked Crusaders
Two teachers find themselves thrown into a heated and ugly fight with parents right before school opens back up.
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Act Four: Boiling Under
Lots of things go unspoken between family members, sometimes for years.
Act Three: There’s a German Word for That
Ira Glass talks to journalist Jochen Bittner about a political lie from 1920s Germany and the lessons it holds for 2020s America.
Act Two: Deer in the Footlights
Ira talks with Connie Rex about the deer she and her sisters kidnapped and ended up putting into their school’s Christmas pageant in Woodruff, Utah, in a starring role.