From article, (Thousands of students, emboldened by a growing protest movement over gun violence, stood up in their classrooms on Wednesday and walked out of their schools in a nationwide demonstration, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Florida.National School Walkout: Florida Shooting Spurs Countrywide Protest Today
In support of the walkouts, the media giant Viacom said that its networks, including MTV, BET, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, will "suspend regularly scheduled programming for 17 minutes" when 10 a.m. occurs in each time zone and that students will take over MTV's social media accounts during the protests.
The 17-minute protests unfolding at hundreds of schools are intended to pressure Congress to approve gun control legislation after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and come 10 days before major protests in Washington and elsewhere.
Here’s what to know:
• The first large wave of students began to leave their classrooms at 10 a.m. Eastern time. Across the country, others are walking out at 10 a.m. in their local time zones.
• The demonstrations were not limited to school property. In New York, students marched in the streets, while in Washington, sign-clutching students gathered outside the White House and on Capitol Hill.
• School administrators have been grappling with how to respond. Some districts welcomed or even tacitly encouraged walkouts, while others threatened disciplinary action against students who participated.)
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Me, "Where were all the students protesting when in my youth, I, and many others, who went to school, got beaten up everyday by bullies. They could care less, but now, when a bully can come to school, and kill every student, they speak up. (Disgusted). Suddenly, action is being taken, but its only because the majority of students feel threatened. When it was a minority, they turned a blind eye."
