About the Series

PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs and Student Television Network investigate how schools across the country are rethinking what it means to feel safe and be safe at school.

GUN CULTURE

In small towns across America, kids grow up handling knives, crossbows and guns. In fact, Black River Falls High School in Wisconsin has a competitive school target shooting team and students are properly taught how to hold and shoot a rifle.

Producer: Jennifer Malchow
Video journalists: Mya Long and Ezequiel Medina

BEHIND THE SCENES

Tia Loftsgordon waits for crew members Mya Long and Ezequiel Medina to finish setting up for an interview. This was Loftsgordon's first semester in journalism classes at Black River Falls High School.

Tia Loftsgordon waits for crew members Mya Long and Ezequiel Medina to finish setting up for an interview. This was Tia’s first semester in journalism classes at Black River Falls High School in Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

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Ezequiel Medina sets up for a shot at the sporting clay range, while Shooting Tigers Coach Scott Goetzka demonstrates what the sport is all about.