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WALKING OUT FOR ONLY THE FIRST TIME, PERHAPS – Most of the students from La Conner’s middle and high schools took to the streets to mark the one-month anniversary of the Parkland, Florida school shootings. If they stick to their, ahem, guns, they will shape the future. They will change the trajectory of their own lives. A much awaited for sign of the times. – Photo by Don Coyote
La Conner Middle and High School students walked out of their classrooms Wednesday morning, taking the first steps toward what many vow will be a lifetime commitment to civic involvement.
They organized a march down Sixth Street from the local campus to Morris Street to protest gun violence and promote school safety.
The La Conner march was one of hundreds that took place across the country a month to the day after 17 Florida high school students and teachers were killed by a teen gunman armed with an assault-style rifle.
There were school districts, many in the south, that did not sanction th...
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