A Decade After Columbine: Lessons Learned And Questions Unanswered
Posted by meredith on 04-20-2009
I don’t remember where I was when I first found out about the Columbine shooting, but I do recall the lingering anxiety that came afterward. As an eighth-grader on the brink of entering high school, I had already been slightly nervous about the unknown. After Columbine and the subsequent string of somber classroom discussions, that normal adolescent fear took on a deeper, more serious undertone.
In light of the tenth anniversary of the Columbine school shooting and the renewed media attention it has raised about the multitude of related issues including school safety, gun violence and bullying, we’ve collected a few recent thought-provoking articles.
We also wanted to open up the discussion to Ypulse readers: how far do you think schools and legislators have come in terms of resources for addressing school safety? Leave your thoughts in comments.
- The Four Most Important Lessons We Learned From Columbine (one of several pieces run on Slate.com from Dave Cullen, investigative journalist and the author of the recently published Columbine)
- Columbine Questions We Still Haven’t Answered (Salon. Also, on Salon an interview with Dave Cullen, a Salon reporter at the time of the shooting, on “What You Never Knew About Columbine”)
- School Safety, 10 Years After Columbine (US News and World Report)
- A Decade After The Columbine Massacre, School Safety Questions Linger (MTV News)
- 10 Years After Columbine, Elected Officials Doing Nothing Isn’t Working (Huffington Post)
Also, check out
“April Showers” – A dramatized retelling of what it was like to be a survivor in the midst of the nation’s largest school shootings from Columbine survivor and writer/director Andrew Robinson. Opening in theaters April 24
Columbine: A True Crime Story by Jeff Klass – Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Klass, an investigative journalist who has been covering the story since the day of the tragedy, explores how shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold carried out their crime. Published March 2009
Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters by Peter Langman – A psychological analysis of 10 notorious school shooters, including Klebold and Harris. Published January 2009
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