CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE
This audio interview is part of a series completed by STA journalism students who sat down with middle school students from around Kansas City. We hoped to find out the realities of middle school life, from dating to cliques, from playing violin to playing volleyball. The series was inspired by Ira Glass’s public radio show This American Life and its episode “Middle School.” Please check back each day for the next few weeks to listen to another installment.
by Cecilia Butler
The popular entertainment of middle school boys is filming themselves doing anything from talking to their dog to acting like Indian Jones, posting all the videos on Youtube.
John Butler, a seventh grader at St. Peters School has over two thousand video views and claimed it was the reason he won Student Council in sixth grade, the same year John first came to St. Peters.
“It does kinda make you popular,” John said.
Within the first week of school kids knew his sense of humor and ability to laugh at himself from the videos they had seen online.
“Most of the grade knows about the videos,” John said. John has big plans for the future of his videos, but right now he is in middle school, spending his free time with his friends recording themselves dancing, sword fighting, and even talking to bananas.