gun-related issues – Global Student Square

OPINION: Why we should cover the trauma, not drama, of school shootings

April 18, 2019
Beatrice
News, Opinion, USA

Sandy Hook. Columbine. Marjory Stoneman Douglas. When Denver schools locked down earlier this week in response to a threatened school shooting, that little voice went off inside my head. The one that remembers all the shootings that came before. And just like before, I saw the media, mobilizing furiously to cover the fear and outrage that school shootings trigger.

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OPINION: In Denver, it can’t be just another Wednesday

April 17, 2019
Beatrice
News, Opinion, Top Stories, USA

He loves “Peppa Pig.” I’m sitting on my neighbors’ couch, babysitting their 2-year-old son because preschool was canceled today, and we’re watching “Peppa.” He doesn’t know why he’s still in his pajamas on a Wednesday morning.

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For California high school seniors, a new twist in college decisions — worry over guns on campus

April 20, 2018
Beatrice
News, Top Stories, USA

As high school seniors across the U.S. receive their college acceptance letters over the next few weeks, students in California say gun laws may be a factor when it comes to deciding where to spend the next four years of their lives.

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Looking back and looking forward: A photographer’s take on March For Our Lives

April 3, 2018
Claire Duncan
And We Rise, News, Photography, Top Stories, USA

For four hours, I stood and watched as teenage leaders took the stage to voice their desire for stronger gun control laws. It was an emotional event, as both speakers and protesters cried over stories of young people lost to violence. The crowd was diverse, with people of every race, ethnicity, and walk of life.

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March For Our Lives: Reporter’s Notebook

In all of the rush to publish the news of the day, sometimes we don’t linger on the scenes, sounds and even smells that our reporters experience as they go about the work of reporting from the field. Now that their work is finished, here’s how some of our reporters felt behind the scenes of the March For Our Lives.

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Parents, teachers, students at New York’s March For Our Lives urge sensible solutions to school safety, gun control

He recalled a playdate in which his children re-enacted an emergency scenario at school. “They’re so prevalent, those lockdown drills, that when they play(ed) school at our house … the first thing they did was a lockdown drill before they went to lessons,” said Young.

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#enough: Students turn out, step up and speak out at March For Our Lives demonstrations across the U.S., world

March 24, 2018
Beatrice
And We Rise, Justice & Equality, News, Top Stories, Twitter Embed, USA

Hundreds of thousands of students from across the U.S. and world are marching today with a message about safe schools and gun control that can be summed up in one word: #enough.

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Lessons learned: Tips on how to have an effective protest at school

March 23, 2018
Phillicity Uriarte-Jones
And We Rise, Education, Opinion, Top Stories, USA

Our community pegged us with our stereotype yet again: a subpar school full of delinquents. But that picture changed just two weeks later.

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OPINION: After Parkland, it takes only a few words to cause a whirlwind of fear

At the restaurant where I work, I see guns all the time, on a customer’s hip or under his shoulder as I clear the tables. It’s so common I don’t think to look twice. But on Feb. 23, nine days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, my high school was the scene of a reported threat that could make even the proudest gun-toting Walla Wallan's stomach drop.

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#enough: High school students step out to call attention to school safety, gun control

March 14, 2018
Beatrice
And We Rise, Education, News, Top Stories, USA

Students across the nation put down their pencils, pushed in their chairs and walked out of their classrooms to advocate against violence and to honor the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting in Parkland, Florida one month ago.

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