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#WalkOut and Call In
Right as students across the country walk out of school for 17 minutes (for each of the 17 students killed in Parkland, Florida), WNYC's youth and families reporter Sarah Gonzalez reports on how schools and students in our area have been planning and how they're aiming to change gun control laws and reporters from around the region plus students, parents and teachers call in to share how it's going down at their schools.
STUDENT LED WALKOUT! 49th street campus! @BrianLehrer@GonzalezSarahApic.twitter.com/8TSdxOs3jx
— Brian Pew (@mrbrianpew) March 14, 2018Woohoo, @GreeneHillBklyn students talking W @BrianLehrer: "we need teachers not sharp shooters," "protect lives not guns," "18thC laws for 20thC issues." "We know right from wrong. We're fighting for OUR lives. Ppl they call experts are funded by the NRA." #NationalSchoolWalkout
— HeatherJChin (@HeatherJChin) March 14, 2018@BrianLehrer Just took this photo on 163rd St, Bronx. Go students! Hope for real change. pic.twitter.com/957Td78vkJ
— Michele M. Riberdy (@riberdy_michele) March 14, 2018"I told her to get suspended." - mother tells @BrianLehrer about her daughter in Morristown, NJ, who was threatened with 4-day suspension if she walks out now to protest gun violence. #NationalWalkoutDay
— Matt Katz (@mattkatz00) March 14, 2018@BrianLehrer right now. Morningside Avenue & 123rd Street. Every student in the elementary school. pic.twitter.com/4Oa0CRf0Up
— Gregory M. Bruce (@greggoreo) March 14, 2018