ZeroCool@vger.social to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago"How am I supposed to explain this to my children?!"i.ibb.coimagemessage-square171fedilinkarrow-up11.71Karrow-down144
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minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoI’m nearly 30 and did them in elementary school
minus-squareeggmasterflex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoI’m in my 30s and we had them all throughout grade school.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoI’m 43, and we didn’t have them at all by the time I graduated in '96
minus-squarecandybrie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoColumbine was in '99, so that checks out. I think schools started doing them sometime after that tragedy.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoWhich was kinda weird to me. Bowling Green happened a couple years earlier, and there had been school shootings in this country ever since the mid to late 1800s. Seemed like an overreaction to me.
minus-squarecandybrie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoWhat are you referring to with Bowling Green?
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoApparently it was Paducah, not Bowling Green, I conflated two different stories https://ny1.com/nyc/queens/ap-top-news/2022/09/17/25-years-after-kentucky-school-shooting-a-chance-at-parole https://www.ksba.org/protected/ArticleView.aspx?iid=6GAU2A2&dasi=3G32
minus-squareTheLowestStone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI graduated in 2002. Based on the other responses, it seems like they started doing them shortly after that.
I’m nearly 30 and did them in elementary school
I’m in my 30s and we had them all throughout grade school.
I’m 43, and we didn’t have them at all by the time I graduated in '96
Columbine was in '99, so that checks out. I think schools started doing them sometime after that tragedy.
Which was kinda weird to me. Bowling Green happened a couple years earlier, and there had been school shootings in this country ever since the mid to late 1800s. Seemed like an overreaction to me.
What are you referring to with Bowling Green?
Apparently it was Paducah, not Bowling Green, I conflated two different stories
https://ny1.com/nyc/queens/ap-top-news/2022/09/17/25-years-after-kentucky-school-shooting-a-chance-at-parole
https://www.ksba.org/protected/ArticleView.aspx?iid=6GAU2A2&dasi=3G32
I graduated in 2002. Based on the other responses, it seems like they started doing them shortly after that.