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.

FOUR YEARS LATER

On October 10, 2010, a gunman entered the premises of Kelly Elementary School in Carlsbad, California armed with a .357 magnum, a propane tank, and a gas can. He fired six shots in succession and announced he was there to, “burn them all.”

Students from local Carlsbad High School visited the school four years later to see how it’s healing.

Co-writer/Narrator/Reporter: Sydney Payne
Photojournalists: Allie DeGour and Charlie Rouse
Producer/Co-writer: Sydnie Hornback
SRL adviser: Doug Green

BEHIND THE SCENES

Carlsbad High School students spent hours in the recording studio tracking the narration for Four Years Later.

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About Us

Student Reporting Labs connect students with a network of public broadcasting mentors, an innovative journalism curriculum and an online collaborative space to develop digital media, critical thinking and communication skills while producing original news reports.

Student Television Network was started in 1999 by a group of teachers who wanted to support and encourage scholastic broadcasting and to provide a forum for teachers to share ideas, ask questions, and learn from professionals in the industry. Over the past 15 years, STN has expanded to include film, media and other forms of communication taught in high schools and middle schools.

American Graduate: Let’s Make it Happen is public media’s long-term commitment to supporting community-based solutions to the dropout crisis. Supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), more than 80 public radio and television stations have joined forces with over 1,000 partners and at-risk schools across 30 states.