Classes, lunch and shooting drills: school in 2019
Elliott Notrica, features writer
November 3, 2019
When she arrives at school in the morning, Elizabeth Button, junior, thinks about what her classes are for the day, who she will sit with at lunch and how to defend herself in the case of a mass shooting.
Gunning for a solution
Jack Anderson, Izzy Colón, Ally Ortmann, Maddie Meyers, and Molly Higgins
February 8, 2019
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The struggles of school safety
Kate Hennessey and Wolfgang Frick
March 16, 2018
There have been 25 fatal school shootings in America since 1999. According to statistics included in the 2001 U.S. Digest of Education, 26,407 public high schools and 10,693 private high schools exist in the United States. This statistic fuels the thoughts of millions of Americans who send their chi...
Time for change
Ally Ortmann, features writer
March 8, 2018
When I was in fifth grade, all I wanted to be was a high schooler. I fell within the High School Musical generation, where high school was about discovering who you are and who you want to be. Every Friday night I’d sit in the KHS bleachers. I felt the bright gymnasium lights on my face, I smelled po...
VoK: Mass shootings
Claire Boysen, features editor
March 2, 2018
TKC asked KHS students about how they felt after hearing about the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. photo by Claire Boysen “Of course I was sad," Abigail Dowell, sophomore said. "I don't know how else to feel. I definitely think it's very sad that the parents had to get that call about the kids and it was probably ve...
Map of school shootings since Columbine
Emma Lingo, news-features
March 2, 2018
This map displays all of the school shootings that have happened since the Columbine shooting that took place on April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colo. There have been 129 so far. Key Red- mass school shootings where more than four people killed Purple- school shootings where 1-3 people were killed Blue- sch...
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