# The Best of School Stories #2

An episode of [RISK!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/334724074), 2 Sep 2026, 47 min.

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Two classic RISK! stories about walking into a room that codes you as wrong from the second you open your mouth. Tara Clancy commuted from working-class Queens to a Manhattan college, where a classmate mocked how she said "huge" and a writing professor slipped her a bag of third-grade grammar workbooks. Susan Kent moved to segregated Fitzgerald, Georgia at age six. By high school her closest friend Walt was Black, and when Jen played a Bobby Brown dedication for her from Walt over the local radio, Susan understood he was about to ask her to prom. Fitzgerald had two proms: a whites-only one and a Black one. Leave your comments and find episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/the-best-of-school-stories-2 And you can find all of our School Stories episodes at risk-show.com/schoolstories Be Part of RISK! 🎟 See RISK! live in New York City on September 8, 2026 ✍️ Pitch your story ❤️ Support us on Patreon 💵 Make a one-time donation via PayPal or Zelle to kevin@risk-show.com 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us 🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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