Townview Magnet Center.
Hundreds of students staged a walk out of the Townview Magnet Center in solidarity with national gun violence protests Wednesday, the Dallas Morning News reports.
Students in high schools across the country walked out of classes at noon on Wednesday to protest gun violence following a March 27 Nashville elementary school shooting that resulted in the death of three children and three adults.
Students at schools throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex participated in the walk outs.
While the protest was not sanctioned by DISD, district Executive Director Danielle Petters was on Woodrow Wilson High School’s campus to oversee the walkout planned there, Advocate editor Renee Umsted reports.
Petters said procedures were put in place at the campus to keep students safe after the district learned of the planned walkout.
In recent months, shooting violence has become an even bigger concern to North Texas schools.
Last month, a student at Thomas Jefferson High School was shot and injured one day after a shooting at Lamar High School in Arlington that left one student injured and another killed.
Just over a year ago, a Kimball High School basketball player was arrested following a shooting on the team bus that left a female student athletic trainer injured.
In 2018, Townview students staged a similar walk out to protest gun violence.
