Students Participate in ENOUGH National School Walkout

On March 14, Tandem Friends students participated in the ENOUGH National School Walkout. Those who chose to participate (we had about 230 community members join in) walked out of class at 10am. We gathered on Tandem's front lawn in powerful silence for 17 minutes, both to honor each of the 17 killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and to call on Congress to "pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship." Students returned to classes afterwards. This national student-led walkout was held exactly one month after the Florida school shooting. Tandem Friends completely supports all students who wish to participate in this action. Check out a Daily Progress report on local school participation here.
Tandem Friends was proud to join The Friends Council on Education and Friends schools across the country in a statement of support for student-initiated acts of civic engagement around current issues of gun control and school safety, for the support of students from Stoneman Douglas High School, and in the pursuit of making schools places of peace and safety.
 
Whitney Thompson joined with heads from over fifty other Friends Schools in America to call on public officials to "heed the call of students across the country and take action to address the multi-layered problem of gun violence...to urge our country’s leaders to listen deeply and carefully to our young people." 
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Tandem Friends School is a co-ed Quaker day school for grades 5-12 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
 
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