tomorrow, valentine s day marks four heartbreaking years since the nation s deadliest school shooting. a gunman opened fire, killing 17 students and teachers at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. that shooting sparked a national movement for gun reform led by the teenage student survivors at that very school. but today gun violence remains a huge problem in the united states in schools specifically, the issue growing to troubling new heights this past year, according to a new report from every town for gun safety, there were at least 136 instances of gunfire on school grounds between august 1st and december 31st, nearly four times the average. joining me now david hogg, one of the leading voices and co-founder of march for our lives. welcome, david. i m so glad to be talking with you. first question, though, out of the gate. how are you doing on the eve of this anniversary? um, thank you for asking.
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Student association creates ‘families’ for genocide survivors
Gilbert Gasigwa was just 10 years old when the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which orphaned him, began.
As a consequence of the turmoil, he was uprooted and had to move from the Nyanza district in the Southern Province where he had been living with his family, to the home of his aunt, a farmer with two children, residing in the Ruhango district of the same province.
“I always felt lonely. I lost my parents and many relatives during the genocide. I felt no one had more problems than I,” Gasigwa says, recalling his painful childhood.
Gasigwa always wondered why he had survived.
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Last fall, as students around the country were adjusting to the beginning of a school year in the midst of a pandemic, something else changed too: the rules for K-12 schools, colleges, and universities handling reports of sexual harassment and assault.
A new Trump administration regulation that went into effect last August raised the bar for what constitutes sexual harassment, allowed students who report harassment or assault to be directly cross-examined, and allowed schools to use a standard of evidence that many saw as more favorable to the accused. At the time, survivors and their advocates were deeply concerned that the new rules would discourage survivors from reporting and make it easier for schools to let harassment and assault slide.