Oconee Students Walk Out to Protest Gun Violence

Joining many thousands of students across the country, 1,000 students at Oconee and North Oconee high schools walked out of their classes Wednesday, Mar. 14 at 10 a.m., observing the one-month anniversary of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL that left 17 students and faculty members dead. After much debate among students about actually walking out of the school, Oconee High’s student council worked with the administration to develop a plan to honor each of the Florida victims, and selected 17 students to describe each victim in a 20-second speech. As hundreds of students locked arms along the entire length…