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Today, Explained

Graduating Marjory Stoneman Douglas High

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

What’s up with the Parkland teens? Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School inspired over a million people to march for gun control a few months ago, but it’s been relatively quiet since. Turns out they’ve been busier than ever. David Hogg speaks to Sean Rameswaram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You ever look down at your phone and go, man, this phone look way cooler if it just lit

0:04.5

up like one solid color?

0:07.8

There's a way to do that on the Uber app now.

0:10.0

You can just turn your phone one color and hold it up so your driver can find you more

0:14.2

easily.

0:15.7

You can find out more at uber.com slash moving forward.

0:24.0

On February 14th of 2018, I was in my high school, Marjorie Stowe, and Douglas, and it was

0:31.8

pretty much just like any other day.

0:34.5

By the end of the day, I ended up in my AP Environmental Science classroom, and the door

0:40.4

was open a little bit, and I heard a pop, and I look over at my friend and I say, hey,

0:45.4

that sounded like a gunshot.

0:46.7

So we go and tell our teacher, and our teacher closes the door.

0:52.6

At the second she closes the door, and the fire alarm goes off, and we all start just

0:57.6

walking out.

0:59.3

As we're walking to our evacuations zone, there's a flood of people coming our way that are

1:03.1

saying, don't come this way, don't come this way, he's coming this way.

1:06.4

So I don't really know what they're talking about.

1:08.0

So I start running with them, and as I'm running with them, I'm actually running towards

1:12.3

the freshman building, not realizing where I was running towards.

1:17.7

And there was a janitor that stopped me right before I got there and said he's over

1:21.7

here, like don't come this way.

1:23.7

And right as he said that, my former culinary teacher, Ashley Curth, opened up her classroom

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