The Club Nobody Wants to Join
What happens when an ordinary day becomes extraordinary and school principals have to deal with a mass shooting? Sam Walker meets the US school leaders coping with tragedy.
There Is a club that no high school principal in the USA wants to join, but they are all incredibly grateful that its there. Because in the event of the worst possible scenario happening, they will need it
The 'Principal Recovery Network' is made up of school leaders who have lived through the horror of a shooting in their hallways and classrooms. And in the hours after an incident they are on the phone helping the next school principal through their trauma
Sam Walker moved her family from Manchester to Arizona seven years ago and she still can't get used to her kids going through regular lockdown drills so they know what to do if their school is attacked
Sam meets some of the principals who have been through it and have come together to offer support - and now activism.
Presenter: Sam Walker
Production: Sam Walker and Richard McIlroy
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