By SJ
Otto
There
were about 3,000 student walkouts planned for today. Several hundred students
walked out of High School North to protest gun violence and call on legislators
to pass more restrictions on guns. Althought school officials cooperated with
and tollerated this walk out, USD 259 School officals did not OK the walk out.
"What we do not want is (for) kids to be
walking out of a building unsupervised, because . . . that is not a safe way to
be able to get their voices heard," said
Alicia Thompson, superintendent of Wichita schools, said just days ago.
So these studunts took some chances.
This is an example of young people taking their lives and
future in their own hands. According to KAKE
TV, in Wichita:
From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk
out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration
yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month's
massacre of 17 people at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
In nearly 3,000 protests nationwide, students
from the elementary to college level are taking up the call in a variety of
ways. Some planned roadside rallies to honor shooting victims and protest
violence. Others were to hold demonstrations in school gyms or on football
fields. In Massachusetts and Georgia and Ohio, students said they'll head to
the statehouse to lobby for new gun regulations.
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