Talking with students about graduation season in the wake of recent shootings

As the school year draws to a close in Middle Tennessee, we check in with students to see how they’re feeling. 

The Uvalde, Texas, school shooting is still in the headlines and it comes so soon after another mass shooting in Buffalo. Both were perpetrated by teenagers. And an even more recent shooting in Chattanooga saw six people injured, all of them younger than 15.

How are students processing these multiple tragedies? How did they make it through this challenging year? And what are their hopes for the future?

But first, we’ll be speaking with reporter Juliana Kim about her favorite stories as she leaves WPLN.

Guests:

• Alexandra Jobe, MTSU student
• Christina Amaya Sandoval, rising senior at Hume-Fogg High School
• Quentin Ding, rising senior at Cookeville High School
• Sidd Siddiqui, recent graduate from Merrol Hyde High School in Hendersonville

Editor’s note: In the live episode, we incorrectly identified the 18-year-old victim of the recent shooting on the MTSU campus as a student. Hasani Brewer was a 2021 graduate of Riverdale High School.