No, the students weren’t behind it, the radicals at the Women’s March were, using the kids.
Via NY Post:
Students across the nation Wednesday staged a mass walkout to protest gun violence — exactly one month after the massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Leading the charge were surviving students from the Parkland school, where confessed shooter Nikolas Cruz allegedly opened fire with an AR-15 rifle, killing 17 people.
Two walkouts were scheduled there, with school officials and student leaders encouraging students to remain on campus and walk the football field with teachers out of safety concerns, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“The mood, much like the weather this morning, is cold but it’s hard and to the point,” survivor David Hogg, who has been at the forefront of gun control advocacy in the wake of the deadly shooting, said on the “Today” show. “We know that we’ve had this change, we know that we’ve seen the suffering and loss but now, instead of closing up like many other communities before us, we must stand up, walk out and speak up against these acts of violence.”
Nearly 3,000 coordinated walkouts — at elementary schools, high schools and universities — began at 10 a.m. in local time zones and were to last 17 minutes to honor the 17 killed, according to Empower, the youth branch of the Women’s March that is behind the walkouts.