Dispatches From The Schoolyard

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In middle school and high school, we're figuring out how to fit in and realizing that there are things about ourselves that we can't change — whether or not we want to. This week, we're turning the mic over to student podcasters, who told us about the big issues shaping their nascent identities.

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0:00.0	Shrine.
0:03.0	I remember high school.
0:05.0	My house stressful that time was.
0:08.8	You know, high school wasn't as stressful for me as middle school was.
0:13.2	Back in my day, we called it junior high, by the way.
0:15.4	Junior high.
0:16.4	It was a very awkward time.
0:17.9	I was really trying to fit in.
0:19.3	I went around telling everybody my last name was Medahee, but I was Mexican because I
0:25.2	wanted to be like all my other classmates.
0:27.8	I did not want to be different.
0:29.8	I totally wish I could get a do over knowing what I know now and knowing that I'm unique
0:35.3	and special in the world, but no.
0:37.4	Oh man.
0:38.4	So when I was a teenager, not middle school, but in high school, I was in this group.
0:42.3	This is embarrassing.
0:43.3	I'm going to own it.
0:44.3	I call court, which stood for Chase Outstanding Urban Righteous Teams.
0:48.9	And it was a, a syllabus.
0:52.3	Yes, it was a, it was a group through my church.
0:57.6	And we advocated for a syllabus see until marriage, you know, because that's God's
1:01.8	way.
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