Lighthouse Community Charter School in East Oakland created a curriculum to teach their students about gun violence statistics, personal narratives and the history of guns with the intention of education being a method of gun violence prevention.
The curriculum was written nine years ago after the death of former student Jacob Gonzalez. It wasn’t taught while students were learning remotely due to COVID-19-related school closures. With gun violence on the rise and students returning to their desks, Lighthouse teachers and administrators advocated to bring back the curriculum.
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