For the days that followed, the public would be in outrage. ‘Never again,’ they would say. Yet, here we are, two years and hundreds of deaths later, and school shootings are as prevalent as ever.

Before we started writing this story, we had defined the problem as strong tolerance from the school for misconduct by students, but after conducting interviews with school personnel and doing research, it has become clear to us that the actual problem is that the school system has surrendered to extremely lenient procedures when it comes to punishing students.