By Her View From Home 
Somewhere in Chattanooga, TN is a school employee who deserves a huge raise… because whoever came up with the concept behind the viral video from McCallie School this week is a genius.
The video features five sixth-graders sitting down for interviews in a classroom at the all-boys school. Each boy looks directly at the camera and reads questions for his senior year self.
Viewers quickly realize these interviews are six years old…because the twelfth-grade version of each boy appears too.
The result is the stuff moms’ mushy “it all goes by so fast” hearts are made of.
It opens with the grinning face of 2025 grad Canon Brock—as a 12-year-old. “Hey Canon, this is your sixth-grade self. Remember me? I’ve got a few questions for you,” he says, as the video cuts to present-day Canon sitting down in the chair.
The montage is repeated with four more boys—Will Turrell, Nkenge Ashford, Christian Lawhorn, and Ward Richey—being addressed by their middle school selves as they settle into the emotional scene.
First, there are fun questions about favorite hobbies, foods, movies, school subjects, and sports.
Then, it gets personal.
“What life advice would you have given me as a sixth grader?” an earnest, young Will Turrell asks.
“Be kind…to everyone, every time you can,” his senior self responds, choking up slightly. “You don’t get a chance to take things back or do things differently, so try to do it in the best way you can. That’s all you can do.”
Over footage of the seniors getting diplomas at graduation, we hear them talking about what they’ll miss about high school.
“[School] really flies by,” grown-up Ward Richey says. “You don’t expect it but it really does. It’s crazy that seven years have flown by in the blink of an eye.”
Will Turrell sums it up. “I’m gonna miss the people. The people make the place,” he says with tears in his eyes.
Young Ward Richey appears again, and grins, “Ooh, I like this one—hey Ward, where are we going to college?”
The senior boys each answer their young counterparts—Sewanee, Yale, Tennessee Wesleyan, Mississippi State, and the University of Alabama—and yep, we are officially impressed with these young men.
The video ends with a montage of each sixth-grader fading into his senior self. If nothing else has gotten you about this video yet, these few seconds will definitely seal the deal. We talk so much about how fast these kids of ours grow up, but to see and hear it, in the span of two minutes?
Oof.
Someone check on all the moms of high schoolers out there, because we’re probably not okay.
(Well done, McCallie!)
by Amy Keyes 
by Jennifer Hale 
