The Club Nobody Wants to Join

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

There Is a club that no high school principal in the USA wants to join, but they are all incredibly grateful that its there. Because in the event of the worst possible scenario happening, they will need it

The 'Principal Recovery Network' is made up of school leaders who have lived through the horror of a shooting in their hallways and classrooms. And in the hours after an incident they are on the phone helping the next school principal through their trauma

Sam Walker moved her family from Manchester to Arizona seven years ago and she still can't get used to her kids going through regular lockdown drills so they know what to do if their school is attacked

Sam meets some of the principals who have been through it and have come together to offer support - and now activism.

Presenter: Sam Walker Production: Sam Walker and Richard McIlroy Image: Frank DeAngelis, the former Principal of Columbine High School

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasule. This podcast finds the world's best
0:47.0	audio documentaries and puts them all in one place.
0:52.0	Oh my gosh, look at this class of 92. Well if you come just a couple of
0:56.1	I was about to say where are you? Well if you'd like to see the eye candy of the hallway I like to
1:00.1	you have to come up to the class of 97 to see the president.
1:03.2	Oh my gosh there you are Andrew C. McGill.
1:06.5	Yeah it took me a while to get that hair curl.
1:08.8	My name is Andy McGill.
1:10.1	I am the middle school principal at West everybody Salem local schools.
1:13.0	I'm Greg Johnson. I'm the high school principal here at West somebody Salem.
1:17.0	Why did you get into teaching?
1:19.0	I had teachers that impacted my life and made me think yeah I want to be an
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