Daily News | South Jersey students stage walkouts to support Texas shooting victims
Hundreds of students at Collingswood High School joined a nationwide protest Thursday and walked out of class for 21 minutes of silence —Members of the Social Justice Club helped plan the hastily organized demonstration against school violence. As word quickly spread, school officials offered their support, and even donated a bullhorn.
”Thoughts and prayers isn’t enough,” said junior class president Aidan DiMarco, one of the organizers. “We need background checks. We need gun control. Our politicians aren’t listening to us. But they’re going to hear us today.” In Camden, students at the high school complex, which includes four public high schools, walked out shortly after city officials held a news conference to announce plans to deploy police officers to every school in the city until the end of the school year and during summer school.
“There are so many kids who are involved and want to make a change,” said history teacher Eric Fieldman, an adviser to the Social Justice Club. “That’s exactly what student voices are supposed to do. I’m so proud of them.”Justin Green, 17, a junior, walked out of school alone after a few classmates backed out of a planned demonstration because they feared possible disciplinary action.
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