A heartwarming video produced by McCallie School, in which five graduating seniors answered interview questions posed by their sixth grade selves, went viral, even making it onto the “Today” show Tuesday morning.
Within one day of being posted, the nearly four-minute long video had over 29 million views on TikTok.
By Tuesday afternoon, ABC’s “World News Tonight” had reached out to the school, and the boys were rushed to McCallie in pressed shirts and uniforms to sit for interviews, Kenyatta Ashford, father to one of the boys, said.
“Zero hesitation,” said Duke Richey, history teacher at McCallie and father of Ward Richey, one of the boys in the video. “You don’t want your kids in the news for something bad, you want it for something like this, it’s a feel-good story. It’s really kind of special and kind of a blessing to be a part of it.”
The boys — Canon Brock, Will Turrell, Nkenge Ashford, Ward Richey and Christian Lawhorn — were videoed during their sixth grade year asking their future selves questions about favorite movies and subjects in school and college plans.