Ep. 22: Poverty. What it is and what it isn't, and the questions between.

As educators, we can hold a single story of poverty, often understanding it and all its forms from an academic or "other" point of view. In this episode, Brian tries to gain a more personal understanding of poverty by asking Kasey to dive deeper into his childhood and inviting an old group-home friend, Kairi Hyman, to join the conversation.

Brian and Kasey (along with Kairi) also try to wrestle through the complexity of raising teens, the impact of music, the power of peer pressure, and how educators can often unknowingly place the unfair burden of imperfect parents on the student.

Also, hierarchical is a word. It's an adjective and it means, "of the nature of a hierarchy; arranged in order of rank."

Click here to find all of Kairi's music. You can also find him on Instagram.

If you connect with Kairi's experience of identity, of "not being suburban enough" and "not feeling hood enough," check out the book, The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.

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Thank you to Matt Hard for the outro-music! (It was generated from our Chat GPT Episode).