I see all these schools who want to have a hugs and kisses program in the school gymnasium tomorrow. Wrong approach.
When I went to HS in a large suburb of Seattle in the late 80’s we had several walkouts. The teachers and administrators didn’t stop us. They let us have our protest, and we returned to classes. In fact, almost once a month they would have an 8th period day. They would shorten all the other 7 periods so we could have around a 20 minute period in the morning to interact with other students and discuss student body issues in the commons area.
Letting kids protest by walking out is a great civic lesson in protesting our government. And they should be protesting school gun violence, it is a worthy cause.
So let them walk out, it’s a great lesson in civic engagement something I think is missing in our school curriculum these days.