Author: Lailah Olson / Source: did you know?
Last Wednesday, students across the country walked out of school to protest school shootings and push for stricter gun control legislation. Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and other citifies all had large protests, as well as localities that had suffered school shootings including Littleton, Colorado, Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida.
In many schools, students were allowed to participate in the demonstrations without consequences, but some schools decided to restrict student activity and punish anyone who stepped out of line. Pennridge High School in Pennsylvania was one of those schools.While the rest of the country has been moved by the grassroots activism of students in the wake of the latest deadly school shooting, the administrators of Pennridge High School in Pennsylvania weren’t really feeling it:
The school suspended over 200 students who participated in Wednesday’s walkout to support gun control. The group has started calling themselves the Pennridge 225 and they haven’t stopped protesting.
The first group of students from the Pennridge 225 served their Saturday detention and, rather than sit in their assigned seats, they staged…
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