Podcast Response: Middle School

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/449/middle-school

When we are young we are always told life isn’t fair but middle school really sums it up for us. The podcast, Middle School, highlights the rough times, rumors, and life itself inside the walls of a middle school. Going to middle school from elementary school can be hard, awkward stages, cliques, and the fear of not fitting is a constant worry of most kids. The experience, however, of both teachers and students is unusually similar.  Teachers never felt fulfilled in the lessons they taught and students live in constant fear of their fellow peers and “friends”. It seemed the Middle School podcast really summed middle school up for everybody; it was not fun and was not fair. Teachers wasted their time teaching something they didn't feel ever sunk in and students constantly fighting to fit into the rest of the kids. High school, however, is the light at the end of the tunnel, it seems everybody "chills out" and doesn't seem to worry about what everybody else is wearing, what they look like, or where they live ; we all just get along.