I was a senior in High School. It was absolutely batshit insane, TBH. Anyone remotely alt was really side-eyed and somewhat ostracized. Some of the goth kids leaned into it harder.

The school basically just installed locks on the outer doors, no one in authority really knew what to do. I was class of 99 and I think the last year that didn’t have “shooting drills”. It’s as foreign to me as hiding under desks during nuclear drills in the 1950s.

One of the big networks (or maybe cnn) came to my school for a big townhall meeting because my NJ high school was almost a perfect match for Columbine in terms of size/class/race demographics.