Deep Reads: Children joked about school shootings. Then the sheriff sent them to jail.

深度阅读:孩子们拿校园枪击事件开玩笑。随后,警长把他们送进了监狱。

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2025-02-23

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Thousands of students made threats after the Apalachee High shooting in Georgia, a Post analysis finds. Nearly 500 were arrested. In Florida, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood decided he’d had enough.
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  • Hi, Hannah.

  • Hi, John.

  • Why don't we introduce ourselves?

  • Sure.

  • I'm Hannah Natenson and I cover education for the Washington Post.

  • And pretty much since I've started, I've had to write about school shootings.

  • From a seven year old who shot his teacher in Virginia to this past fall when a 14 year old shot two classmates and two teachers in Georgia.

  • Yeah.

  • My name is John Woodrow Cox.

  • I'm an enterprise reporter at the Washington Post.

  • I have a focus on narrative reporting.

  • I have reported on school shootings and gun violence,

  • how it affects children for the past eight years.

  • I wrote a book about this subject, wrote about a school shooting in South Carolina,

  • wrote about the Newtown school shooting, Uvalde, Parkland.

  • I wrote about the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

  • So, you know,

  • this has been a big part of my life and the work that Hannah and I have done together for a long time.

  • I don't normally ask John to tell me all his work because I,

  • I have been an avid follower of John's work since college.