Thousands of students from across the country walked out of their classrooms at today to protest gun violence in schools.
. “We won’t accept a country where gunfire can ring out at any moment, whether it’s while grocery shopping at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, a party in San Bernardino, or graduations across the country.”
At El Camino Charter High School in Woodland Hills, California, between 400 and 500 students and staff members filtered out of their school at 9:00 am PST to conduct a walkout, chanting, “Enough is enough” and “Hey hey, ho ho, gun violence has got to go” before ending up in front of the school for about 50 minutes, says Steven Bash, an alum of El Camino who currently works there as an information technology specialist.
“We need to have change,” says Natalie Wynter, a senior at El Camino and president of the school’s chapter of Students Demand Action. Wynter says she has younger siblings who are “terrified” of going to school in the wake of the“After every single tragedy or tragic instance, it’s like, ‘We send our prayers.’ I saw a string of tweets from legislators like Kamala Harris. These people can actually make change but they are not doing anything,” she says. “We wanted to share that enough is enough.
Like many high schoolers, Wynter says she grew up with the specter of active shooter drills. “We’d be in class and they’d wiggle the door handles. They’d tell us to stay away from windows, hide under desks, protect yourself, be silent,” she says. “It’s crazy where we live in a society where we have to do those things.”
At Oregon’s Lake Ridge High School, senior Flynn Williams was one of about 200 kids to walk out. Williams says the administration there was supportive, giving them time and space to hold their protest. “We hoped to tell legislators in Oregon and across the country that gun violence is an issue that needs to be addressed starting June 3, to commemorate lives lost to gun violence.
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