How do you feel that you have changed personally and that your school life has changed since the Columbine tragedy?

As far as school life goes, nothing really changed due to Columbine. School officials just took every little threat really seriously. A month before the Columbine shootings, a girl was shot and killed by a stalker on her way to school, my school. I think that that incident had a larger effect on us because it was right here.
Zoya

I am paranoid now. Thanks for asking.
(V)BAT

Well, I think that I became more aware that it was not just big towns that these horrible incidents took place- that it could happen any time, any place. I think it really changed Schools, too- for awhile, wwe could only go out the front door of our School (which wasnt very safe, considering my School is so huge- and what abouyt people in wheelchairs?) and wwe can't go to out lockers or too the Cafeteria without a teacher, and during lunch we cant even get out of our seats except to get lunch, or use the washroom or go to our lockers all year- just yesterday a girl was yelled at because she was in the wrong table, talking to a boy at another table! Besides the horrible deaths and all, this is one of thereasons I wish that Columbine HAD NEVER HAPPEND. However, maybe it all ended to be bad-but good. It woke up thee world in both good ways-and bad ways....
Lizbet411

Just last week on 4/20 someone was threating to blow up our school and do other things. This all ended up with our school haveing a lockdown adn the police searching our school. I think that people have to do this type of thing to fill the emptiness that is in their heart is terrible. I don't hate the people that do these things. I actually feel sorrow for them because I think all they needed was for someone to ask them how their day was and really mean it. I don't approve of what they did AT ALL. It is a tragedy and I cried when I watched the news. But, next time you pass that loner in the hallway or the person who doesn't say too much in class. Just stop and ask them how they are. Who cares who sees you, someday you will realize that it doesn't matter anymore.
Babygurl

Since the Columbine incident, we have had a lot of things going on at our school. There have been more fights and, even worse, there have been bomb threats and kids bringing guns to school. About two weeks before the Columbine annivesery, somebody wrote in all the boys' bathrooms 4-20-00 repeat Columbine. A lot of kids didn't come to school. Nothing happened, thankfully, but we had cops circling the school in cruisers and cops guarding doors and walking the building. Going to school has become pretty scary since Columbine.
Paden

not too recently, there was an incident in my school concerning a couple of boys who had planned to bring guns into the school on the last day of school. thankfully, a girl reported this before they did. i don't know if this was influenced by the columbine tragedy, but now i don't feel as safe as i have before.
isis