Local students foot soldiers in war on gun violence
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April 25, 2018
LEARNING OUT OF SCHOOL – A school district that engages with and encourages its students to grow into citizens is one that is fully educating its pupils. Some 70 La Conner middle and high school students engaged in extra-curricular activity April 20, walking out on the 19h anniversary of the shooting massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado. – Photo courtesy Bill Reynolds
La Conner students showed they can walk their talk on Friday.
The local teens, walking in shifts, kept pace with a nationwide student movement that served as a vigil for those killed in school shootings as well as a plea for more strict gun laws.
The key word above being movement.
Students here managed to sustain their part of the National School Walkout Protest for more than five hours, repeatedly circling the La Conner campus, though some ventured off at one point to bring the message to Town Hall and through both legs of La Conner’s business district.
About 70 students rallied at Whitt...
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