Thursday marks the one year anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Since then, there have been six school shootings in the U.S., including one at Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore on Feb. 7. A recent study from CNN found that since 2009 the U.S. has had 57 times as many school shootings as all … [Read more...]
One year after Parkland, are Americans equipped to prevent school shootings?
Active Shooter Drills are Traumatizing a Generation
Active shooter drills are designed to prepare staff and students for a school shooting. These drills are practiced in the name of safety and to set parents' minds at ease about sending their children to school. The Violence Project's Jillian Peterson discusses the risk of contagion that accompanies mass shootings and active shooter drills, as … [Read more...]
“Now I have to go back to where my friends were killed”: the hard return to school of a young Venezuelan woman after the Parkland shooting
Two weeks after the shooting that left 17 dead, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to classes on Wednesday. On the return, BBC Mundo accompanied one of the survivors. This is her account and this is the story of the first day of school after the massacre. Read the full article here. Source: BBC Mundo Author: Lioman … [Read more...]
Minnesota incident included in 2018 U.S. school-shooting total shouldn’t be, police official says
Eighteen. That’s the number repeated across airwaves and on websites after Wednesday’s deadly Florida school shooting, as it was called the 18th one in the United States in 2018. That statistic lumped the Parkland, Fla., incident, where a student armed with an AR-15 killed 17 people, with one Minnesota incident. On Feb. 5, a third-grader … [Read more...]