Amanda Engel
WMAL.com

WASHINGTON (WMAL) — A youth segment of the Women’s March is organizing a National Student Walkout for the one month anniversary of the Stoneman Douglas school shooting.

Students at high schools and colleges across the country plan to walk out of class on March 14th for 17 minutes, in honor of the 17 victims of the shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Madison Thomas, a junior at Georgetown University and the Women’s March Youth Empower College Engagement Coordinator, spoke to WMAL about the walkout and what has been planned so far in the DC area.

Georgetown already has a scheduled walkout event, according to Thomas. She is currently working with American University, Catholic University, Howard University and George Washington University to plan events there.

So far, the high schools that have events in the DC area include Walter Johnson High School, Yorktown High School, Washington-Lee High School, Churchill High School, Old Mill High School, Colonial Forge High School and Fauquier High School. Farmwell Station Middle School is also listed as having a walkout event on the Women’s March website.

“I’m sure that more high schools and colleges in the DC area will sign on,” she said.

Thomas says that the walkout is “an expression of unified youth solidarity against gun violence across the United States.”

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