Melanie McGee has been an educator for Nashville Metro Public Schools since 2000. In this episode, Marcus and Melanie talk about what parents need to know as we go into the 2023/2024 school year as well as the lingering challenges they're facing from the COVID pandemic.

9:20 - Laptops handed out for at-home learning during COVID...a majority of them hardly worked

11:35 - Straight A student couldn't write a paragraph....

*****15:15 - Our school learning experience is much different than our kid's learning experience....today's kids need to understand the "why" behind the educational concepts

*****17:45 - "Parents are your child's first teachers."

26:00 - Marc's experience of fatherhood from his father....

28:40 - Steps parents can take to prepare for the school year

51:45 - The issue of kids and phones...applying fail safes....

1:02:15 - God telling me to MOVE after 2 craniotomies....

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