美国国家公共电台 NPR--A survivor of the Columbine shooting returned to teach at the school

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A survivor¹ of the Columbine shooting returned to teach at the school

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In this week's StoryCorps, we hear about a student who endured the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, and later returned to the school as a teacher.

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

It's Friday, when we hear from StoryCorps. And today, we have wisdom from two survivors³ of Columbine. Mandy Cooke was a sophomore⁴ at Columbine High School in 1999. English teacher Paula Reed was also there on the day of the massacre⁵, and they came to StoryCorps to talk about the years since, as well as Mandy's choice to become a teacher.

MANDY COOKE: My first year in college, Columbine was the very first page of my psychology⁶ textbook. That's when I had that feeling of, like, whoa, people in my class are going to read about this. And I lived it. You know, I never wanted to come back to Columbine to teach. I know there's people out there who never stepped foot back into that building. And it was hard, yeah. But I didn't know that it would affect me that much.

I remember that we had a threat of some kind where they put us on lockdown. And I could see police coming down the street. Nobody could get in or out of the neighborhood. And I was doing OK. But throughout the day, it just kept getting longer and longer. And then all these kids were like, Ms. Cooke, what's going on? And I said, you know, I don't know. But [expletive] this person, whoever did this to us. And as you know, you know, I don't curse at school. But I was pissed off. I walked into the social studies office, and I called my sister, and I said, I'm not OK. That's that moment I went right back to my 16-year-old self. I was so broken that day. I could never envision - what am I going to be doing 20 years later?

PAULA REED: Right.

COOKE: I couldn't see that far. And now, looking back, I weirdly⁷ feel proud that I walk into Columbine every day. I'm doing the job that I've always wanted to do, and I get to teach some of the best kids in the world.

INSKEEP: Mandy Cooke and Paula Reed for StoryCorps. Their interview is archived at the Library of Congress.