"Gabriela is one of 10 parents who joined a WhatsApp group to regularly chat with Guardian journalists about how it feels to raise kids now. Less than two weeks after the mass shooting in Minneapolis, Charlie Kirk was shot at the University of Utah. On the same day, another school shooting occurred in Evergreen, Colorado. The Guardian asked the parents about their experiences amid so much school and political violence."
"All of the parents in the group expressed near-constant fear over the possibility of a school shooting or violence in schools. Gabriela said her son just had his first school lockdown drill as a kindergartener: It does break my heart that these drills are now more common than the fire and earthquake drills of our day. Other parents like David Rodriguez, a barber who lives in Pharr, Texas, echoed the sentiment, saying that for him it used to be tornado drills, not active-shooter drills."
Ten parents formed a WhatsApp group to share experiences of raising children amid frequent school and political violence. A 27 August shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis killed two children and injured 17 others, and further shootings occurred within weeks. Parents reported pervasive fear about the possibility of school shootings and an increase in lockdown and active-shooter drills. Gabriela Rangel described lockdown drills replacing fire and earthquake drills, and David Rodriguez recounted his five-year-old being terrified during an unexpected active-shooter drill and asking whether his father could save him.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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