How some Catholic schools approached the National School Walkout over guns

[Maxirad]

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...d-the-national-school-walkout-over-guns-91925

 

[MaryT777]

I think the approach of a Mass or a prayer service speaking about lives of the victims in the tragedy is a better way to handle this situation than school walk-outs. i also had never considered the issue of school safety in walk-outs Demonstrations like this should be done outside of school hours.

 

[Irishmom2]

Our local Catholic high school had a prayer service for the seventeen victims instead of the walkout.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I think the approach of a Mass or a prayer service speaking about lives of the victims in the tragedy is a better way to handle this situation than school walk-outs. i also had never considered the issue of school safety in walk-outs Demonstrations like this should be done outside of school hours.

The public school students in my hometown tried to have a walkout, but were denied the permit by the city for safety reasons. They had an assembly instead.

I think either an assembly for public school, or a Mass/ prayer service for a Catholic school, is a much better alternative than just walking out of class, which means you miss classes that parents and/or city taxpayers are paying for. I have heard that some students’ motivation to be in the walkouts was not so much the guns issue as “cool, I get to skip school, miss class” etc. While I support free speech, missing a class for a protest has always struck me as a dumb idea unless the thing you are protesting is the class itself or the person teaching it.