Is Our School Really Safe In Wake Of Columbine Parkland Wondered About Campus Safety Decades Before 2018 Tragedy
The Courier, then Parkland’s student paper, considered: Could something like what happened there happen here? “I really don’t feed safe anymore sending my son to public school after what happened at Columbine,” one concerned parent said in an interview with the paper in 1999. Nineteen years later, on Valentine’s Day, a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 students and educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. The anniversary of that shooting is Friday....