Chesapeake students need signed permission slips to participate in walkout

“Students and allies are organizing the National School Walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship”.

Joining a nationwide movement, students at high schools in the Lake Geneva area are planning to walk out of school March 14 as part of a national demonstration against gun violence.

The message was sent to News 3 by a parent of a VBCPS student.

School District 2 has released more information on how officials plan to handle a student walkout planned for next week.

“I’m asking for people to be more aware”, said Cohen. He said students can participate without fear of penalty. “We want Congress to pay attention”, the website said.

Butler said the district wants to prevent an “oppositional or confrontational type situation” from happening, and that the district itself must remain neutral on the subjects. “However, these students will be marked as having an unexcused absence from class”, said school leaders in the letter. He said they will use the event as a learning opportunity for students as they study civil rights.

The bill funds mental health, school safety and school security programs at about $300 million, plus another $67 million for a program that would allow some school employees to carry firearms.

Come Wednesday, March 14, students around the United States will gather together in silence in an attempt to facilitate change. “We feel confident that the school in question is a very safe school”.

“If students are leaving our campus, it’s hard for us to maintain their safety”, said Johnson. “Each site will be communicating those activities to their students and parents”, according to the letter.

As students from Florida State and Florida A&M universities held a die-in at the Capitol Rotunda to call for stricter gun-control measures, Moskowitz urged the House not to allow more guns in schools.

Sophia Pappalardo, vice president of the student body at Half Moon Bay High School, along with fellow students and administration, is working to bring those walkouts to her school. It is being organized by “a collective of teenage activists in cities across the country who work to organize our peers to take action on the issues we marched for on January 21, 2017”, according to https://actionnetwork.org.

Administrators say, if and when a walkout happens, they won’t tolerate disorderly conduct.

Representatives for Shandon Joint Unified School District did not respond to multiple requests for comment.