Days after 19 students and 2 teachers were killed in a mass shooting, students walked out of class protesting gun violence.
Highlights
- Days after 19 students and 2 teachers were killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, students at schools around the country staged walkouts to protest gun violence.
- Students at Oxford High School in Michigan, where a school shooting occurred in November, staged a walkout at 12 p.m.
- on Thursday.
- Students also walked out at schools in Port Washington, New York, and Falls Church, Virginia, and Santa Clarita, California, in support of the national gun safety movement.
- Emma Janoff, an 11th grader at Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School, says she got active on gun control policy and school safety following the 2018 Parkland High School shooting.