Slate Presents: Lockdown

Slate Presents

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Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.3 • 1.3K 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello this is Josh Levine. I'm the host of The Queen from Slate Presents. I'm here to share something we thought you might be interested in.
0:08.0	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
0:14.8	experience. These drills now take place in 95% of American schools. What you're about to hear is a collaboration
0:22.0	between Slate and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in the United States.
0:27.0	It's an audio project featuring first-hand accounts from kids of all ages about what it's like to go through these drills.
0:35.6	We hear a lot about school shootings, but we're only starting to have a larger conversation
0:40.0	about how they affect even those kids who may never go through one.
0:43.4	You can hear more from these students on slate.com.
0:46.4	I am in kindergarten.
0:50.0	First grade, second grade.
0:51.5	Sixth grade, eighth grade, ninth grade.
0:53.2	I'm in the 10th grade.
0:55.0	I'm in 12 grade.
0:56.0	And I live in San Diego, California.
0:58.0	Matatchin, New Jersey.
0:59.0	In Louisville, Kentucky.
1:00.0	Baltimore City.
1:01.0	LA County.
1:02.0	South Orange, New Jersey.
1:03.4	I live in Seattle, Washington.
1:06.5	I'm Elizabeth Van Brocklin. I've been covering gun my islands as a reporter for the
1:15.6	trace for four years and for the past couple of months in partnership with
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