Students at high schools around the Rochester area took part in a national student walkout this morning…leaving their classes for 17 minutes at 10:00 a.m. to protest the school massacre in Florida.
Some schools including Rochester’s World of Inquiry School held structured events – in their case, a student march to Martin Luther King Jr. park at Manhattan Square, where they used flowers and orange ribbons to spell the word “enough” in the snow before walking back to school.
At School of the Arts in Rochester, students held a moment of silence in the snow outside the school. Students at Brighton High School walked out onto the snow-covered athletic fields. At Pittsford Sutherland they stood in a semi-circle on the parking lot. Students in Fairport, Irondequoit, Spencerport and schools across the Rochester area also took part.
Students at Aquinas Institute gathered for prayer in the field house. They wore maroon, which is the color of Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High School.
It wasn’t only high schoolers protesting the Florida school massacre. Residents and staff at Golisano Children’s Hospital stepped out and stood in front of their building at 10:00.