Tragically, these school shootings have become all too common in America.
While the attack at the elementary school in Uvalde is the deadliest in nearly a decade, it's also the 27th school shooting this year alone. Our national network of young reporters -- they're part of our Student Reporting Lab, asked their fellow students what grownups should know about what it's like growing up in this era of gun violence in schools. Here's some of what they had to say. We had a fire alarm Monday go off. And there are two girls in front of me. And they just asked, what if this isn't a drill? And we all knew they weren't talking about a fire. Kids in America don't hear a fire alarm and fear fire. They fear a shooter. They fear that it's a trap they're walking into. It makes you kind of grow up really fast, in terms of, like, coming to terms with your mortality, which is something someone my age, I don't think, needs to do right away. I feel like I shouldn't have to be like every morning, OK, this could be it for me. I could die today.