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Perfume Genius Is Taking ‘Too Bright’ On The Road For A Tenth Anniversary Tour

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Perfume Genius has announced a new tour commemorating the band’s third album, Too Bright, which was released ten years ago on September 23, 2014. The album, which was co-produced by Adrian Utley of Portishead and Ali Chant, was critically acclaimed on its release and peaked at no. 24 on the Billboard US Top Rock Albums chart.

Tickets for the tour go on sale on Friday, June 7 at 10 AM local time. You can find more information here.

The album is also set to be reissued on vinyl on September 20 as a special edition crystal-clear record, which won’t contain any new material.

Earlier this year, Perfume Genius was one of the artists included on the Jack Antonoff-produced soundtrack of Apple TV+ series, The New Look, contributing a cover of the 1959 Dinah Washington version of “What a Difference a Day Makes.”

See below for the tour dates of Perfume Genius’ 10-year anniversary tour for Too Bright.

06/28 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall *
06/29 — Seattle, WA @ Queer Pride Festival
08/01-04 — Idyllwild, CA @ FWB Fest 24
09/16 — Washington, D.C. @ The Atlantis
09/17 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
09/18 — Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater
09/24 — San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
09/26 — Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
09/27 — Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever

* with 1010Benja

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Why Did Method Man Say He’ll ‘Never’ Perform At Hot 97’s Summer Jam Again?

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Method Man had a busy weekend for himself to kick off June. With Redman by his side, the duo had a pair of performances this past weekend with the first being at The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia and the second being at Hot97’s Summer Jam in Long Island, New York. The former seemed to go without issue, but the latter left Method Man with a sour taste in his mouth. Hours after completing the Summer Jam performance, Method took to Instagram to say that he will “never” perform at the festival again.

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“Not our crowd at all,” he wrote after the performance at UBS Arena. “Thanks again, New York and the whole tri-state (that showed up to the event) plus Pete and Ebro. I got love for you guys. But never again.. at this point the generation gap is just too wide for me. #nevercomingback.”

Method Man and Redman appeared on the Summer Jam lineup alongside Doja Cat, Sexyy Red, Offset, Sleepy Hallow, 41 (Kyle Richh, Jenn Carter, Tata), and Tee Grizzley who are all artists that entered the hip-hop game at least two decades after Method Man’s peak in it. So, in his defense, his gripe with the “generational gap” at the festival is absolutely warranted. This gap was presumably not felt at The Roots Picnic where artists from all decade, past and present, were included in the lineup.

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LeBron James Called Kyrie Irving ‘The Most Gifted Player The NBA’s Ever Seen’

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The Dallas Mavericks will look to win their second NBA title this month as they take on the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals, and if they’re going to pull off the upset of the league’s top team, they’ll need their stars to be at their best.

Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving have been sensational through Dallas’ playoff run so far, and against the depth of high-end talent the Celtics have, those two are going to need to be at their very best. For Doncic, it will be the first time he’s been in this kind of situation, but with the way he acquitted himself in the West Finals, the assumption is he will provide his usual production. Irving is a bit more of a wild card, but he’s the only guy in the Mavs main rotation with the experience of winning a championship.

That title run came with LeBron James in Cleveland in 2016, where Kyrie elevated his game to an incredible level over the second half of that series to help the Cavs pull off the improbable comeback over the Warriors. At the time, Irving was the youngster experiencing his first Finals alongside a grizzled vet in James, but now the roles are reversed with Doncic. For James, he loves seeing Kyrie back on that stage and heaped praise on his former teammate, while noting his jealousy watching the Mavs because he no longer gets to play alongside him.

As James put it, Kyrie is the “most gifted player the NBA has ever seen.” There are a lot of players that share that belief about Irving, as he has an incredible amount of respect among his peers for his skill level as a playmaker, shotmaker, and creator. His combination of ball-handling, finishing at the rim, and tough shot-making makes him a favorite of a lot of NBA greats, who may have more physical advantages but envy Irving’s dexterity with the basketball in his hands.

While James will be watching proudly as Irving looks to lead the Mavs to a title, Kyrie will be facing another of his former teams in the Celtics. They’ll know his tricks firsthand and have a keen understanding of what he’s going to want to do. The problem is, knowing where Kyrie wants to go and stopping him from getting there are two very different challenges.

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All The Best New Indie Music From This Week

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Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it.

Every week, Uproxx is rounding up the best new indie music from the past seven days. This week, we got new music from Katy Kirby, Romy, Magdalena Bay, and more.

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Katy Kirby – “Headlights”

Back in January, Katy Kirby released Blue Raspberry, an immediate indie rock standout for the new year. The Nashville-based songwriter will soon be releasing the deluxe version of that album, and “Headlights” is our first taste of this new extended version. Like much of Blue Raspberry, it’s a vulnerable, tender tune that grows from a muted ballad into a rollicking rocker. But “Headlights,” however, is a self-described paean to “being f*cking tired.” Here, exhaustion sounds strangely revelatory.

Magdalena Bay – “Death & Romance”

Magdalena Bay are world-builders. Vocalist Mica Tenenbaum and producer Matthew Lewin’s greatest strengths as a duo center on their predilection for the imaginary. Their 2021 debut, Mercurial World, evinced those traits, but here they take matters a step further, carefully leavening their oddball edge with a polished, poppy sheen. On the one-off single, “Death & Romance,” Tenenbaum and Lewin’s infectious synth-pop straddles the line between experimental eccentricity and standard pop songwriting, much like their best songs do. Hopefully, it’s a promise of something else to soon come from them.

GIFT – “Going In Circles”

GIFT have quickly become one of the most exciting new bands in indie rock. The NYC five-piece’s tactful blend of psych-rock and shoegaze reaches new heights on “Going In Circles,” one of the tracks from their forthcoming sophomore album, Illuminator. Frontman TJ Freda’s gauzy vocal timbre lends itself well to the swelling guitars that surround him, emulating the cyclical nature of relationships that Freda sings of.

Sasami – “Honeycrash”

In 2022, the mononymous artist Sasami traded her breed of indie rock for something notably heavier on Squeeze. On tour, she covered the title track from System Of A Down’s 2001 masterpiece Toxicity to further solidify the volume hashed out on her own record. “Honeycrash,” her new single, doesn’t contain the nu-metal penchant of songs like “Skin A Rat” or her interpretation of Daniel Johnston’s “Sorry Entertainer,” but its distorted guitars and pounding drums show that Sasami’s louder side is here to stay.

Romy – “Always Forever”

Donna Lewis’ 1996 song, “I Love You Always Forever,” has been indelibly etched into the pop canon. Fresh off the release of Mid Air, her debut solo album released last September, The xx’s Romy Madley-Croft has interpolated Lewis’ classic for her own spin on it, “Always Forever.” Recently debuted during her set at Mexico City’s Ceremonia Festival, “Always Forever” retains all the joie de vivre of its muse but with thumping synth bass and a faster BPM.

Half Waif – Ephemeral Being

Nandi Rose’s work as Half Waif is as delicate as it is striking. Over programmed drums and synth washes, Rose waxes philosophical on the transience of life on her new EP. Having grieved the death of a family member and then healed from her own medical challenges, Rose embraces the impermanence of being on the aptly named Ephemeral Being. The EP itself is only five songs, but that may as well be the point. Beauty can lie in brevity.

King Hannah – Big Swimmer

Liverpool duo King Hannah, consisting of vocalist Hannah Merrick and guitarist Craig Whittle, are back with the follow-up to their 2021 debut, I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me. The follow-up, Big Swimmer, expands on the bluesy post-punk that King Hannah so expertly laid out on its predecessor. On songs like “Davey Says” and “Scully,” Merrick and Whittle’s songwriting dives into new depths.

Mabe Fratti – “Enfrente”

Guatemalan avant-garde cellist Mabe Fratti always finds the groove in the most hypnotic compositions. “Enfrente,” the latest preview of her forthcoming record, Sentir Que No Sabes, establishes a rhythmic pulse that sways like a ship on open seas, and Fratti’s cello rises and falls alongside it. It’s another display of her disarming artistic prowess, where there’s ample space for orchestral beauty and kaleidoscopic soundscapes alike.

Balance And Composure – “Cross To Bear”

In 2019, Balance And Composure went on an indefinite hiatus. But, just like it affected many, many things, the pandemic changed that. When lockdown took over the U.S., vocalist and guitarist Jon Simmons missed his bandmates. So, they got back together in October 2022, and they’ve been working on a new record in the interim, the Will Yip-produced With You In Spirit. “Cross To Bear,” one of two new singles from the Pennsylvania emo quintet, is a foreboding alt-rock slow-burner built on simmering tension. “I wanna catch you by surprise,” Simmons sings. After a five-year break, Balance And Composure have delivered the most welcome of surprises.

Bodysync – “Babies”

Ryan Hemsworth and Giraffage, the two producers behind the electronic duo Bodysync, relish in absurdity. Take a song like “Babies,” a single off of their forthcoming album, NUTTY, whose squelchy, acid-house percussive elements wondrously buttress the spliced and pitched soul sample at its core. It’s steeped in ’90s rave, but Hemsworth and Giraffage throw their other influences, like mall-punk’s juvenility and Y2K pop’s syncopation, into the mix on a delirious whim. “We’re just babies, man,” goes the opening vocal sample. It sounds like a mere joke out of context, but the single contains all the wide-eyed wonder and omnivorous curiosity of youth. Bodysync pulls it off like well-honed masters of their craft.

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5 hacks for deep cleaning your house with the least amount of effort

There are some people who actually enjoy cleaning, but it’s fairly safe to say that most people don’t. Most of us like things to be clean, but we don’t necessarily like the actual cleaning part it takes to get there.

Not everyone can afford to hire professional cleaners, so we’re stuck doing the cleaning chores ourselves—the normal everyday housekeeping as well as the seasonal/occasional deep clean. Some of us were trained by our families to do it, while other people have to learn on their own.

For the latter folks, crowdsourcing some tips for making the cleaning process go more smoothly with less effort is a great way to make it less daunting. Someone on Reddit asked people to share their best hacks when deep cleaning the house, and more than 1,000 responses yielded some best practices worth trying out.

Here are people’s most popular cleaning hacks:


Declutter, declutter, declutter

The more stuff you have to clean, the more cleaning you have to do. That may sound obvious, but it’s not something we necessarily think about when we’re looking at our belongings we’ve either become attached to or have mindlessly collected over the years.

So the first step in deep cleaning is to get rid of things we don’t actually use or want anymore. You don’t have to become a total minimalist, but less is more when it comes to keeping a space clean.

“Declutter, declutter, declutter. Having fewer things to collect dust makes general cleaning so much easier, let alone the awful stuff like vents or behind heavy appliances.” – WassupSassySquatch

“Definitely. I realised when I treated us to a one off cleaner after 4 years of having kids that I spent the whole day prior decluttering and tidying so they could clean most efficiently. Well, if it was always that tidy or empty we could deep clean every week without overwhelm. So, it’s the stuff. Moving the stuff before you can even clean.” – aga8833

Carry Hefty bags as you go

As an addendum to the “declutter” advice, have bags on hand for donating and for throwing away. Be ruthless about your belongings. Most people have too much stuff and hold onto things they’ll never use because they think they might someday or because they don’t feel like it’s worth throwing away. If you don’t have bags to put them in, you definitely won’t move past those lines of thinking, so keep them with you as you clean and use them liberally.

“Lots of hefty bags and don’t be precious- throw it all away/ donate it.” – trou_bucket_list

“Don’t hold on to junk that you never use, because you don’t want to create waste by throwing it out. It’s already waste, it just lives in your house instead of a landfill. Donate it if you can, sure, but sometimes it’s easier to just throw it away and give yourself grace for it.” – happypolychaetes

One room at a time, from the top down

Cleaning one room at a time breaks the whole house into smaller parts, which makes it seem less overwhelming. And starting from the top down means you clean any dust or debris that falls as you go, ending with the floor so nothing gets left behind.

“Top down. One room at a time. Pace yourself.” – Straight_Calendar_15

“If you clean the counters first, you don’t have to worry about messing up the floor since you’re saving it for the end. If you clean the floor first, you could end up dirtying it again as you clean the counters.” – o_in25

Wear a headlamp

Headlamps aren’t just for camping or spelunking—they can be super handy for cleaning as well. Even in a lit room, there are nooks and crannies in bookshelves and corners where you can’t see dirt, dust or cobwebs unless you shine a light on them.

Why bother if you can’t see it normally anyway? Because dust can create a mild, stale odor that keeps your house from smelling fresh. This hack may not save you time or energy, but it will make the end result far more satisfying.

“Clean wearing a head torch – if it looks good under such good light, it’ll look sh*t hot under normal lighting. It’s great for finding cobwebs on walls / ceilings too as they throw an obvious shadow.” – Dougalface

“I’ve done this while cleaning inside my car. I kept cleaning and cleaning and it still looked dusty and awful so I gave up. When I came back the next day under normal lighting it looked brand new again.” – Potatobender44

Pump up the jams…or ‘Hoarders’

Yes, cleaning is a chore but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun and energizing. Turning on some of your favorite music, whether that’s upbeat dance tunes, powerful symphonies or fun fiddle music, can make cleaning a whole lot more enjoyable. Turn it up loud to drown out any grumbling thoughts and get moving.

Alternatively, put on episodes of the television show “Hoarders,” which can be a great motivator, especially during the decluttering part.

“Listen to music while you do it (earbuds or headphones while vacuuming).” – SRB112

“This is a little strange but I like to put on runway show music in the background when I clean, usually its super long and kinda questionable energetic music so you can do 25 minutes of cleaning and feel like a supermodel all in one. (balenciaga has some good soundtracks imo love or hate the brand)” – NickyThePerson

“I play a hoarders marathon in the background while cleaning…” – Last_Sundae_6894

“Put Hoarders on the TV while you clean. I stg within 10 minutes I’m ready to throw everything away.” – Halbbitter

Happy cleaning, everyone!

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Got an iPhone? Expert shows you how to stop paying Apple for services you don’t want.

Americans everywhere are dealing with subscription fatigue. A report by the financial experts at the Motley Fool found that 57% of respondents to their survey believe they are overpaying for subscriptions and 40% say they have too many.

The worst part is checking your bank account and find you’re being charged for a subscription or service that you don’t even use.

A fast way to cut back on your subscription payments is to unsubscribe to services on your phone. Content strategist Marvelle Reed, aka the “Marketing Misfit,” recently shared a video on TikTok explaining how to see what you’ve subscribed to on your iPhone and cancel the services you don’t need.


“If you’ve got a bunch of charges coming from Apple that you don’t know where they came from or you don’t know why they still trying to charge you and you want to cancel all them checks, this is what you do,” Reed opens the video.

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1. Go to “Settings” on your device

2. Click on your profile

3. Go to “Media and Purchases”

4. Click on “View Account”

5. Scroll down to “Purchase History”

6. Review all of your charges and turn off subscriptions you no longer want

The video was a big help to those who discovered they were being charged for services they didn’t need. “You are sent from heaven!!! The way I was just talking about all the random charges on my credit card that I can’t keep up with. Thank you, my friend!!” Summertime wrote. “Thanks for this. There were two charges for an app that I canceled,” Aailyahalexis added.

Reed’s post is also a great reminder for everyone, even if they don’t have an iPhone, to check their bank account once a month for unnecessary services or subscriptions and those that may have raised their prices. In a world where an increasing number of services are on a subscription model, staying one step ahead of unnecessary charges is a big part of staying financially fit.

1. Go to “Settings” on your device

2. Click on your profile

3. Go to “Media and Purchases”

4. Click on “View Account”

5. Scroll down to “Purchase History”

6. Review all of your charges and turn off subscriptions you no longer want

The video was a big help to those who were being charged for services they don’t need. “You are sent from heaven!!! The way I was just talking about all the random charges on my credit card that I can’t keep up with. Thank you, my friend!!” Summertime wrote. Thanks for this. There were two charges for an app that I canceled,” Aailyahalexis added.

Reed’s post is also a great reminder for everyone, even if they don’t have an iPhone, to check their bank account once a month for services they didn’t know they were paying for or subscriptions that may have raised their prices. In a world where an increasing number of services are on a subscription model, staying one step ahead of unnecessary charges is a big aprt of financial fitness.

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Family brings home the wrong dog from daycare until their cats saved the day

It’s not a secret that nearly all golden retrievers are identical. Honestly, magic has to be involved for owners to know which one belongs to them when more than one golden retriever is around. Seriously, how do they all seem have the same face? It’s like someone fell asleep on the copy machine when they were being created.

Outside of collars, harnesses and bandanas, immediately identifying the dog that belongs to you has to be a secret skill because at first glance, their personalities are also super similar. That’s why it’s not surprising when one family dropped off their sweet golden pooch at daycare and to be groomed, they didn’t notice the daycare sent out the wrong dog.

See, not even their human parents can tell them apart because when the swapped dog got home, nothing seemed odd to the owners at first. She was freshly groomed so any small differences were quickly brushed off. But this accidental doppelgänger wasn’t fooling her feline siblings.


Once the dog was in their house, they noticed that their cats started behaving strangely towards their canine sibling. The cats started attacking the dog, likely trying to get it to tell them what they did with their real dog sister. Cat slaps and a house full of strange people didn’t dampen the imposter’s spirit though, in fact, that’s what helped reveal the switcharoo.

This dog kept handing out face kisses and had no interest in seeing her favorite neighbor. After putting all of those things together, the owners decided to hightail it to the vet’s office to scan the dog’s microchip. Alas, they indeed had the wrong dog.

“We just never even thought that that would happen, and of course we thought we would know right? Like we’re her parents, we would know something was wrong, we would know right off the bat that it wasn’t Emmy,” Kebby Kelley told Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Seems both golden retrievers got to go on a really strange adventure that deserves a lifetime of delicious dog treats for the confusion.

See both sweet pups below:

This article originally appeared on 9.21.23

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‘SNL’ cast can’t keep it together during a sketch where Ego Nwodim battles her steak dinner

Most episodes of “Saturday Night Live” are scheduled so the funnier bits go first and the riskier, oddball sketches appear towards the end, in case they have to be cut for time. But on the February 4 episode featuring host Pedro Pascal (“The Mandalorian,” “The Last of Us”), the final sketch, “Lisa from Temecula,” was probably the most memorable of the night.

That’s high praise because it was a strong episode, with a funny “Last of Us” parody featuring the Super Mario Brothers and a sketch where Pascal played a protective mother.


In “Lisa from Temecula,” Paul, played by Pascal, takes a few friends out for dinner, played by Punkie Johnson, newcomer Molly Kearney and breakout star Bowen Yang. The trouble comes when Johnson’s sister Lisa, played by Ego Nwodim, orders her steak “extra, extra well done.”

The sketch is a play on the notion that it’s a faux pas to order well-done steak, especially in a fancy restaurant. However, Lisa doesn’t care and won’t tolerate “one speck of red” on her steak.

The sketch is one of the rare moments on “SNL” where things are so funny that the cast breaks character. Pascal has difficulty getting through his lines and Yang has to cover his face because he can’t stop laughing. But Nwodim only has one small break in the scene and keeps it together as the sketch’s comedy core.

“Lisa from Temecula” got a lot of attention on social media and Nwodim later thanked the sketch’s writers Alex English, Gary Richardson and Michael Che.

This article originally appeared on 2.6.23

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Mom shares the ‘palpable’ joy her daughter with Down Syndrome has over rare party invite

Macy Avis, a 9th-grader with Down Syndrome, had a reaction to receiving a birthday party invite that was so pure and joyous that it quickly went viral on Instagram.

Heather Avis, Macy’s mom, wrote in the video’s caption that she could “count on one hand the amount of birthday parties” that Macy had been invited to throughout her childhood.

Understandably, when a friend from Macy’s life skills program handed her an invitation, her joy was “palpable.”


“To me it spoke of a longing fulfilled. All I could do was laugh with her and then cry as I celebrated with her,” Avis wrote.

In the video, we hear the proud mom say, “You got invited to a birthday party?” followed by absolute squeals of delight from Macy.

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Macy and her mom weren’t the only ones feeling celebratory. So many viewers chimed in to share their own joy at the news, and offer some encouragement.

“Thank you for sharing this wonderful moment with us! I got goosebumps listening to the glee in Macy’s voice. I am so incredibly happy for her and can’t wait to hear all about the amazing time she’s bound to have!” one person wrote.

Another declared, “This is the best thing on the whole internet.”

The birthday party invite is the result of Avis’s “fight” to find inclusive spaces for her daughter, a journey she noted has “only just begun” in a pinned Instagram post.

Avis explained up until recently how Macy was in general education, where they had experienced some “amazing inclusive classrooms,” but still overall “felt a longing for belonging.” This led Macy to joining a life skills program with other disabled students, where she has been able to nurture a solid community—complete with birthday invitations.

As for how that party went, this follow-up video speaks for itself:

Along with celebrating Macy’s victory, Avis used the moment to note that “the party was inclusive not because a student in the general education program invited Macy, but because a person with an intellectual disability invited both disabled and non-disabled individuals. It was inclusive because people like Macy and the young man we were celebrating, who are often excluded, truly understand how to include others. Let’s reflect on that for a moment!”

While it’s important that students with Down Syndrome are placed in environments with the resources they need, not including them into the general community doesn’t help break through the stigma they regularly face—including being treated as children even when they are adults, or assuming they are entirely dependent. This was an issue recently tackled in the “Assume I Can” ad starring Madison Tevlin.

Moreover, Avis added that prioritizing diversity and inclusion offers the “beautiful gift” of “recognizing our shared humanity” among those who might at first seem different from us. That’s why she continues advocating for both her daughter and the Down Syndrome community through her The Lucky Few Foundation and podcast.

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Former teacher gets blunt about the ‘denial’ some parents have about their kids education

Many kids are seriously struggling in school. According to US News, an estimated 49% of public students started off the 2022-2023 school year behind in at least one subject as last year. That’s only a small fraction better than the 50% of students behind in the previous year.

And while there are several factors contributing to this issue—recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, a lack of resources for many public schools, a teacher shortage, etc.—several educators feel that a majorly overlooked aspect is the parents’ involvement, or lack thereof, in their child’s education.


Recently, one former teacher bluntly stated that it was parents’ “denial” that’s to blame. Odion, who now works as a flight attendant, made her case in response to another teacher asking parents “Why don’t y’all know that your kids aren’t performing on their grade level?” on TikTok.

In the original video, the teacher (@qbthedon) laments that even though he teaches 7th grade, most of them still perform on a 4th grade level, and, despite his efforts, those kids still move onto the next grade. The worst part is that the parents don’t seem to be aware that their kids are struggling.

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This lack of awareness and engagement dates back further than the pandemic years, says Odion, who taught Pre-K and Kindergarten in 2013.

Case in point: parent-teacher conference nights, where virtually no parent would show up. Odion then recalled one father who did attend with his daughter, called Tia for the story, but would not believe that Tia did not know the full alphabet.

“In kindergarten, you have to at least know, I think it was 80% of the 52 letters, as in uppercase and lowercase, and you have to be able to identify at random. So, I’m telling the dad that she barely knows 10 letters. And he’s in denial. ‘Nah, you know, she knows her letters,'” Odion says.

She then acts out that night, using a makeshift flashcard like she did to test Tia.

“I literally said, ‘What letter is this?’” Odion says while holding up the letter “M.” “She said something that’s not it. Put another one down. ‘What letter is this?’ She don’t know it.”

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Even still, the dad insisted that Tia knew her letters, then eventually blamed Tia’s older brother, who, despite only being a sixth grader himself, was apparently “supposed to teach her.”

“It is not up to a child in elementary school, or middle school, or really any of your older kids, as someone who’s an older child… It is not up to the kids to teach younger kids,” Odion says in the clip.

Using another example, Odion states that a fifth grader in her class was reading at a kindergarten level and could only process basic sentences like “I see you” and “I like to see.”

In this instance, the students should be held back in order to fully learn the year’s curriculum. But Odion argues that parents fight against it “because they are more concerned about the optics of a child being held back than actually taking care of the child’s needs.”

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In this instance, the students should be held back in order to fully learn the year’s curriculum. But Odion argues that parents fight against it “because they are more concerned about the optics of a child being held back than actually taking care of the child’s needs.”

While the research shows that holding kids back a grade doesn’t necessarily improve their academic performance, and that there are pros and cons either way, the biggest point Odion seems to be trying to make is that parents need to be more proactive in their child’s education.

“Parents, y’all can’t be backseat drivers about your child’s learning. You have to help reinforce it at home. You put a kid in front of that phone or iPad whenever they come home, it better be on YouTube, and it better be learning about letters and sight words. You can’t tell me you can’t read to the kid. It takes 10 minutes to read to the kid. No one is that busy,” she concludes.

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This article originally appeared on 1.5.24