School has gotten more difficult for students in recent years. Competitive pressures have increased, college acceptance rates have gone down and inequalities between schools have risen.
And after last month, we’re once again called upon to confront another concern that affects the very existence of our futures: gun violence.
Each year in Florida, where I grew up, we sat through active shooter drills just as often as we prepared for hurricanes. We watched headlines of school after school being hit by tragedy. We witnessed the construction of wire fences around our school as a superficial form of safety.
