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Going to School In the Age of Mass Shootings: How I and Other Young People Have Coped With the Reality of School Being A Deadly Place
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Going to School In the Age of Mass Shootings: How I and Other Young People Have Coped With the Reality of School Being A Deadly Place

The mass shooting at Columbine happened 3 years before I was born, and Sandy Hook 10 years after. To be born and raised in the midst of mass shootings radically shifts ones perspective.

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Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas (Photo by allison dinner / AFP) (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

The first time I stayed home because of a mass shooting, I was 10-years-old. 

The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary occurred the day before.

My classmates and I were pulled out of school early, told only that there had been a tragedy…

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