Students may make up only 20% of the population, but we are 100% of the future, and we want our voices heard. This is why, on March 14, 2018, a national middle and high school class walkout was orchestrated by students. This was intended to be a solemn protest to honor the 17 victims of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, as well as to push congress to pass new gun control laws.
At our school, students asked if they could participate in the walkout and were told that they would be marked tardy, absent, or even suspended. Teachers were discouraged from organizing an event and stated that if they participated, they would also be punished. This unorganization directly led to the chaos that was to follow.
The anticipated somber mood was hastily ruined by the hundreds of kids who were herded down the halls. Teachers and students alike were appalled by the sights they saw. Almost half the student body walked out of class. A majority of these kids left, not to protest, or even to honor the 17 Parkland Shooting victims, but to skip class for 17 minutes. We could not believe our ears when we heard that only a handful of the students who walked out knew the actual reason of why they had left class in the first place. …show more content…
Two fist fights broke out between students and more almost did. The sheer lack of respect we saw can never be expressed with enough disappointment.
A school walkout will not get gun control laws passed. This act of protest had good intentions; at our school, there was a sum of kids who walked for the Parkland Victims. If the walkout did not work at our school, it surely failed at others. While the intentions were well-meaning, leaving class caused no immediate change to be
At our school, students asked if they could participate in the walkout and were told that they would be marked tardy, absent, or even suspended. Teachers were discouraged from organizing an event and stated that if they participated, they would also be punished. This unorganization directly led to the chaos that was to follow.
The anticipated somber mood was hastily ruined by the hundreds of kids who were herded down the halls. Teachers and students alike were appalled by the sights they saw. Almost half the student body walked out of class. A majority of these kids left, not to protest, or even to honor the 17 Parkland Shooting victims, but to skip class for 17 minutes. We could not believe our ears when we heard that only a handful of the students who walked out knew the actual reason of why they had left class in the first place. …show more content…
Two fist fights broke out between students and more almost did. The sheer lack of respect we saw can never be expressed with enough disappointment.
A school walkout will not get gun control laws passed. This act of protest had good intentions; at our school, there was a sum of kids who walked for the Parkland Victims. If the walkout did not work at our school, it surely failed at others. While the intentions were well-meaning, leaving class caused no immediate change to be