

The Day My Friend Was Stabbed At School
Have you ever been locked in a classroom while an ambulance carried away a classmate after an incident of school violence? I have. It wasn’t a mass shooting. It was a stabbing in the mid-nineties in Mississippi. As I write this our nation is stunned after seventeen children died in a mass shooting in a high school in Florida yesterday. I’ll post this, maybe, in a few weeks. Every time I hear about a shooting I’m reminded of my own brush with school violence. I’m waiting to po