Slate Presents: Lockdown
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
If you have any school-aged children in your life, you know that lockdown and active shooter drills have become a routine part of their school experience. These drills now take place in 95 percent of American schools.
What you’re about to hear is a collaboration between Slate and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in the United States. It’s an audio project featuring firsthand accounts from kids of all ages about what it’s like to go through these drills. We hear a lot about school shootings, but we’re only starting to have a larger conversation about how they affect even those kids who may never go through one.
You can hear more from the students at slate.com/lockdown.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, mom and dad are fighting listeners. This is Dan Cois, and I'm here to share something in the feed this week that we thought you might be interested in. If you're a parent of school-aged kids, then you probably know that for your children, lockdown drills and active shooter drills have become a routine part of their school experience. My kids just had one last week. These drills now take place in 95% of American schools. What you're about to hear is a |
| 0:22.4 | collaboration between Slate and The Trace, a non-profit newsroom focused on gun violence |
| 0:27.4 | in the United States. It's an audio project featuring firsthand accounts from kids of all ages |
| 0:33.1 | about what it's like to go through these kinds of drills. We hear a lot about school shootings, |
| 0:38.4 | but even parents don't fully understand what drills feel like for our kids. So please listen, |
| 0:44.6 | and you can hear more from the students on slate.com. Thanks a lot. |
| 0:50.2 | I am in kindergarten. First grade, second grade, sixth grade, sixth grade, eighth grade, ninth grade. I'm in the 10th grade. I'm in 12th grade. And I live in kindergarten. First grade. Second grade. Six grade. Eighth grade. |
| 0:54.4 | Ninth grade. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm in the 10th grade. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm in 12th grade. |
| 0:57.8 | And I live in San Diego, California. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm in a touch in New Jersey. |
| 1:00.6 | Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 1:01.6 | Baltimore City. |
| 1:02.6 | LA County. |
| 1:03.4 | South Orange, New Jersey. |
| 1:05.1 | I live in Seattle, Washington. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm Elizabeth Van Brockland. |
| 1:13.6 | I've been covering gun violence as a reporter for the trace for four years. |
| 1:18.6 | And for the past couple of months, in partnership with Slate, |
| 1:21.6 | my colleague Alon Stevens and I have interviewed two dozen students of all ages |
| 1:25.6 | in towns and cities across the country. |
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