What I found most unfortunate about the walkouts here, were how they were planned and executed by the administration without a doubt, (They planned the lessons for the day, they planned where the students would "walk" to and what would be done once there.), and then students were "invited" to take part... invited with a heavy dose of manipulation in the form of extreme praise for choosing to opt in, and no real option to avoid the planned classes on the subject...
Once they knew they had an angle to play, "Our kids deserve our support", Our kids need to discuss school safety" ect... They exploited that loophole for all it was worth.
The students were "led" but the staff, too cowardly to admit that, just kept right on saying "we are respecting our students right to "their voice" by "supporting this protest".
And they were careful to hide the agenda. Never mentioned gun control once, ever, in the emails to parents, just couched it in terms like "school safety" and Civil Disobedience" (which is odd imo, because a school santioned walkout is hardly an act of Civil Disobedience. It's more let's play protest for 17 mnts!)...
It was disingenuous of them to suggest that those students had any voice at all since the only "voices" they had any respect for, were those that parroted their own.
*My girl is exquisitely selfish btw. IE:
She can think for herself and she'll never be a sheeple. She's an extremely loving and caring human being, a truly marvelous individual. And we like that about her! *