449: Middle School
Oct 28, 2011
This week, at the suggestion of a 14-year-old listener, we bring you stories from the awkward, confusing, hormonally charged world of middle school. Including a teacher who transforms peer pressure into a force for good, and reports from the frontlines of the middle school dance.
(Pictured: 7th graders at a costume dance, dressed as chararacters from The Outsiders.)
- We sent several correspondents straight to the epicenters of middle school awkwardness: School dances. Producers Lisa Pollak and Brian Reed, plus reporters Eric Mennel, Rob Wildeboer and Claire Holman spoke with kids across the country during the nervous moments leading up to the dances. And Lisa even ventured inside, to the dance itself. (9 1/2 minutes)
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7th graders at the middle school costume dance...dressed as chararacters from The Outsiders, which they were reading in school. (Beacon Middle School; Lewes,
Delware)
