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Delaware Student Walkout for Anniversary of Florida Shooting

lorie shaull
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Delaware high school students are planning a walk out for March 14th to protest gun violence.

The march comes on the heels of the Parkland, Florida high school shooting that left 17 people dead.

Ellen Schlecht, a sophomore at Ursuline Academy, told the Wilmington News Journal that it was time “to take a stand and change our community.”

The paper reports that students at around 20 Delaware schools are organizing walkouts for the one month anniversary of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Their protests are part of a national movement which plans a walkout across the country at 10 a.m. that morning.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.