I’m in my mid-late 20s, and went to entirely public schools. My partner is a few years younger than me, also went to public schools, and the difference in our e

I’m in my mid-late 20s, and went to entirely public schools. My partner is a few years younger than me, also went to public schools, and the difference in our experiences consistently surprises me: while school shootings were a concern while I was in school, I never experienced a hoax. Meanwhile, she experienced multiple hoaxes each year in high school. More generally, my (slightly) younger friends have independently described having nightmares over school shootings. It makes me very sad to think that generations of young adults have those kinds of associations with our educational system.