Ask a Teacher: What Do You Do When You Genuinely Dislike a Student?
“What do you do with a student in your class who you genuinely dislike?” That's the big question in the latest installment of Ask a Teacher, Slate’s education podcast with the Teacher Project at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In this episode, host Matt Collette is joined by:
- Andrew Ahn, a teacher and adviser at City as School, an alternative high school for 11th- and 12th-grade transfer students in New York.
- Tessa Benau, a 10th-grade math teacher at Vanguard High School in New York.
- Ray Salazar, a high school English teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. He writes the White Rhino education blog.
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