Bulletproofing Schools, American Children’s Rights, the Military Told a Lie

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Jonathan’s recommendations:

• This article and interactive digital classroom show how American schools are changing in the absence of meaningful legislation to stop mass shootings. Bulletproof backpacks, auto-locking doors, and other measures to minimally mitigate a problem that is uniquely American underscore the terrible reality that teachers and children, professors and students, live in fear every day. “I’ve come to terms with the fact that I might die in my classroom,” says one teacher in the article. The fact that we are turning classrooms into saferooms should drive us to our knees in prayer, open our hearts and minds to work on behalf of the most vulnerable, and make us fight for the right not to be shot while doing math and learning how to read.