Mar 17, 2018
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FOR THOSE OF YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL THAT WANT TO WALK OUT ON MARCH 14 BUT ARE WORRIED ABOUT SUSPENSION AND WHAT IT WILL DO FOR YOUR COLLEGE RECORD
Colleges such as MIT, Yale, and over 40 universities have come out saying that the suspension will not impact your application. And many have shown support for your decision to walk out.
So have no fear and keep doing what you’re doing!
Hello!
Ten children have died at santa fe high school, in texas!
This is the 22nd school shooting this year!
This is the 22nd firing of a weapon inside a school where people have been hurt or killed by said weapon!
We are 20 weeks into 2018.
Now, I’m hearing you might want to put a stop to school shootings. And a lot of people agree with you. But, everyone’s screaming about thoughts and prayers, which political party’s fault it is, who’s allowed to talk about it, and nobody is getting anything done!
What can we do?
We can vote.
Primaries are happening all summer, all around the country! Check this website here to see when the primary in YOUR state is in, so you can vote for who can run in the general election! Some have already happened. Put it on your calendar!
http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/2018-state-primary-election-dates.aspx
and most importantly?
get out and vote.
Why should you vote in the midterm elections?
On the federal level, that means voting for the people who sit in the Senate and the House of Representatives. You know, the people who make and approve laws that do actual things for people. And on the state level, you can vote for governor. Mayoral elections for your city are then, too! This vote affects the majority of actual lawmakers in the country. These votes decide who makes the laws and who approves the laws. So, if there’s somebody running for the Senate or the House that wants to push an idea you agree with? Support them! Vote for them, and get them elected into our government.
Most midterm elections are happening on November 6th. Check your state’s government website to see exactly when midterm elections are happening!
vote.
What if you’re not registered to vote?
Register now! Register as early as possible, because every state has a different process! This government website has all the info you need on registering to vote, with links to all the appropriate places!
https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote
Vote.
Vote!.
all hope is not lost.
we can do something.
VOTE.
[Image: a blue and white poster with the “ACLU” and “students not suspects” logos at the bottom. Text reads “If you think your rights have been violated, let us know: aclu.org/walkout” and, below that, “Share a story about your walkout: Text WALKOUT to 82623.”]
Dissent is patriotic. Free speech and peaceable assembly is a right.
i'm just,,,, so proud of all the kids walking out of school today and I wish I could add my voice to their masses
Anti-ICE Walkout Backfires: Students Told ‘Go to Class or Get Suspended - Red Queendom
This is how responsible adults should guide children: set clear boundaries, explain the consequences of their actions, and demand...
Some schools are using common sense
Other schools are afraid of the lawsuits incoming
Either way, teachers are organizing these walkouts because students have no clue what's going on outside their little worlds
And most don't care beyond their social circles
🚨 Florida Teachers Union: Student Protests Are “REQUIRED” Follow Conservative Twins
So yeah, get ready for lawsuits, schools and teachers behind these walkouts
Student activists, protesting gun violence, time latest walkout to Columbine anniversary
By Marissa J. Lang, Joe Heim and Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, April 20, 2018
Hannah Weisman, a high school senior from Bethesda, arrived Friday morning at the White House with two friends. They were among the first to gather for a protest calling for an end to gun violence on the 19th anniversary of the school shooting in Columbine, Colo., an event that marked the start of an era of deadly school rampages.
They brought no signs because they felt the mood was more somber than major walkouts last month. On Friday, they were present to honor the slain.
All three of the Bethesda students were born a year or more after the attack at Columbine.
“It’s scary because that was so long ago, and we’re here because nothing’s changed,” Piper Deleon, 17, said. “I hope that us speaking up, the young people speaking up, will get everyone else to speak up.”
Weisman said that since a Florida school shooting in February that left 17 dead, she has been wondering if her school could be next.
“It’s really upped my paranoia,” she said. “We’ve gotten bomb threats, we do these active shooter drills. But it just feels so much more real now. It could happen here.”
Across the nation, walkouts--smaller in scale than the March protests--signaled the resolve of students who continue to demand action on gun control measures and to remember victims of school shootings, including the 17 killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Florida.
In the Washington region, several hundred students left their schools Friday morning and staged a vigil outside the White House to pay tribute to the Columbine victims and others killed or wounded by guns.
Aniyah Smith, 17, knew that not everyone in her community could make it into the District to attend another walkout. So, she had an idea: collect letters from her classmates, teachers, community. On Friday, Smith arrived from Arlington with hundreds of letters, packed into plastic bins and bags.
“We’ve marched and we’ve been ignored. We walked out and we’ve been ignored. Let’s see [legislators] try to ignore us when we drop these right outside your office door,” said Smith, a senior at Wakefield High School.
“I just always assumed someone else would do something about things that are wrong in the world, you know?” Smith said. “But then I realized, why don’t I do it? Why can’t that someone be me? So, I did.”
As hundreds of students sat in silence for 19 minutes--one for every year since the Columbine shooting--Smith filled the silence by reading the names of the victims over a megaphone.
“We stopped saying their names a long time ago,” she said. “So until the end of this moment of silence, I will continue to repeat their names so you guys don’t forget them.”
The students then marched to the Capitol for a rally and to deliver letters to lawmakers calling for tougher gun-control measures.
A grim reminder of the gun violence that has struck schools arrived early Friday morning before protests began. Students at Forest High School in Ocala, Fla., 270 miles north of Parkland, had to cancel their planned walkout following an early morning shooting at their school. One student was injured and the shooter, a former student, was taken into custody. There have been 13 school shootings reported in 2018, the highest number at this point in the year since 1999.
Columbine High School does not hold classes on the anniversary of the 1999 shooting, a practice that began the year after the assault, in which two teens killed 12 students and one teacher before taking their own lives. Students instead dedicated the day to community service activities such as volunteering in soup kitchens, participating in a park cleanup and reading to preschoolers.
Addressing students at a rally at the U.S. Capitol, Columbine survivor Salli Garrigan told protesters that when she was their age, she didn’t know how to make her voice heard. Now 35 and an Arlington resident, Garrigan cautioned the students that victims of school shootings carry wounds for the rest of their lives.
“I hoped it would never happen again, but here we are 19 years later, and it has happened again and again and again,” Garrigan said in an interview. “But for the first time I feel hope because these students are using a voice I didn’t know I had two decades ago.”
The events Friday were more muted, missing some of the adrenaline and exuberance that had propelled hundreds of thousands of students through the previous protests. Participants said an array of factors may have contributed to the lower turnout, including a lack of promotion, confusion about the walkout’s goals, conflicts with mandatory standardized testing and, in some cases, protest fatigue among students.
School administrators were also rethinking their approach to the student actions. In school districts that had encouraged student participation in earlier walkouts or held moments of silence on campus, administrators were less inclined to continue accommodating the protests.
As with the walkout that unfolded March 14, school districts tried to strike a balance between giving students space to exercise free speech and not disrupting learning or risking safety.
