Focus: Adults in the Room

Adults in the Room: The Price of Belief

March 3, 2026·40 minnarrativedocumentary
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This episode of 'Adults in the Room' explores how a high school journalism project unraveled a culture of inappropriate teacher-student relationships at Seattle’s Garfield High School in the late 1990s, exposing systemic failures and the personal cost of speaking out. It’s a reckoning wit

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Ella Hushagen

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Isolde RafteryElla HushagenDavid EricTom HudsonChristina MitchellDr. JonesRosie BancroftMary Raftery

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Criminal Justice ReformInequalityInvestigative JournalismLong Form JournalismMental HealthRacial JusticeTrue Crime

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