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I still remember being in middle school the year Columbine happened
Still remember them installing the metal detectors, showing us videos encouraging us to turn in anyone who we think might “erupt” and just the total transformation of my school into something that was basically maximum security prison. It was really great being the small and quiet kid that everyone joked about being the next shooter. Hell, for a time, I even thought about getting my hands on a gun myself and making them all pay.
We learned all the wrong lessons from Columbine and it’s not surprising that school shootings keep happening
yeahhh after Columbine my POC brother got suspended because some white kids turned him in for saying he hated the school. Of course he had no plans to do any sort of violence, he was just expressing an opinion about some shitty teachers. But since it’s a racist area and he’s brown… yeah he was suspended for over a month.
Meanwhile i had some kids call in ACTUAL bomb threats to my high school multiple times and like… no one got punished or even caught as far as i know.
HAHAH…
That was the year that I got into some college AP classes with tons of books.
That was also the year that the school banned backpacks because… reasons? I guess.
That was also the year that I almost got arrested for bringing my backpack full of college text books to school, putting it in my locker, and refusing to open it for the principal… I eventually chickened out and opened the locker for them but I didn’t immediately chicken out.
My school banned backpacks, baggy pants (you could hide a shotgun in baggy pants!), “”“Gang Colors”“” and the Super S (you know the angular one we all drew as kids)
It was all just security theater, of course, but gotta keep the brown kids in line!
My group was deemed to be the mythical “trench coat mafia” because we were the goths and artsy weirdos and the only openly gay kid in the school.
It wasn’t as bad as what I’ve heard happened in the bible belt, but it was still scary to have everyone around you half convinced you were going to shoot up the place.
