The fearful lives of students and teachers within the walls of a middle school is anything but false. These are rough times and it seems there is a similar reaction across America to how horrible it really is.
"Life isn’t fair", something we are always told when we were are young, is something middle school really sums it up for us all. 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. Something as simple as a school dance seems to bring nothing but fear and stress. When you're at the bottom as a sixth grader, things are even worse. Most sixth graders are still young and do not want to dance with the opposite sex. When you reach seventh and eighth grade things change, not only the rules but the way you dance and "friends" aren't being as friendly. The students all willingly go for fear of missing out, getting there there is a constant worry of how to dance and who to dance with and stressing about if you will get made fun of or not. Middle School really shows how an enjoyable event can really go bad.
In this podcast the students aren't the only unhappy prisoners of middle school. 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 are 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.
"Life isn’t fair", something we are always told when we were are young, is something middle school really sums it up for us all. 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. Something as simple as a school dance seems to bring nothing but fear and stress. When you're at the bottom as a sixth grader, things are even worse. Most sixth graders are still young and do not want to dance with the opposite sex. When you reach seventh and eighth grade things change, not only the rules but the way you dance and "friends" aren't being as friendly. The students all willingly go for fear of missing out, getting there there is a constant worry of how to dance and who to dance with and stressing about if you will get made fun of or not. Middle School really shows how an enjoyable event can really go bad.
In this podcast the students aren't the only unhappy prisoners of middle school. 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 are 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.
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