The school shooting generation
Apple News In Conversation
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🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In light of the recent shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, we’re bringing you an episode from our archives. In 1998, a student opened fire at a middle-school dance, killing one teacher and wounding another teacher and two students. Journalist Marin Cogan was a sixth grader there, and she recalls the shock and horror she and her classmates felt. Back then, school shootings were far more rare; kids and educators didn’t have the language or the tools to talk about — much less process — their trauma.
For Vox, Cogan connected with survivors of other school shootings that took place in the 1990s. She spoke with former Apple News In Conversation host Duarte Geraldino about coming of age in a world wholly unprepared to deal with the aftermath of mass school shootings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. Today we're bringing you an episode from our archives. We thought this conversation felt |
| 0:06.6 | more urgent than ever after the recent school shooting in Uvaldi, Texas. This episode is about the school shooting generation, the first wave of |
| 0:16.4 | school shooting survivors who are now adults and have grown up watching these types of mass |
| 0:21.7 | casualty events happen over and over again. |
| 0:25.9 | This episode is hosted by my former co-host, Duarte Geraldino. This is in conversation from Apple News today. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Duarte Geraldino. |
| 0:37.0 | Every weekend we're taking you deeper into the best journalism on Apple News. When Merin Kogan was in the sixth grade, she went out one night to play mini-golf with friends. |
| 0:58.0 | Next door, the kids two grades older were attending the eighth grade dance. |
| 1:02.0 | We had just started playing and we heard what sounded like a bunch of balloons popping. |
| 1:07.8 | Marion and her friends didn't think much of the sound. |
| 1:10.4 | That isn't until they saw a bunch of eighth graders running out of the dance hall toward the golf course |
| 1:14.4 | They were crying and seemed very upset suddenly I heard that one of the eighth grade students who I knew had a gun and that he had shot mr. Gillette who was an eighth grade teacher and also a student |
| 1:26.0 | council advisor in the leg. |
| 1:28.8 | Marin remembers a friend telling everyone to take cover. |
| 1:31.8 | My childhood best friend on instinct yelled everybody |
| 1:34.2 | get down on the ground. |
| 1:35.3 | So we all got down on the ground. |
| 1:36.8 | We were crouched together, just listening and waiting. |
| 1:40.1 | I remember the eighth grade students crying. then I remember eventually someone said, you know, they got him, it's all clear. |
| 1:48.0 | It was 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High School. This was around the same time that |
| 1:54.0 | Marin says the modern school shooting era began. When I think about what I'm |
| 1:59.1 | referring to is the start of the school shooting era. |
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