HHS, South Lakes Students Hold Walkouts To Protest Florida Shootings

Several hundred students from both area high schools staged walkouts today, part of a national protest in the wake of last week's shootings at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Fortunately for "web loggers" like us, the kids were on the Twitters, as they do.

From South Lakes High School:

moment of silence for the victims of the florida shooting in our walkout today at South Lakes High School. We will fight to put an end to gun violence. We will not stop until we are heard. #wewantchange @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/Sv6uQGAGAh

— Camille (@camidenny) February 21, 2018

Walkout at South Lakes High School https://t.co/tqWSqXdCUp

— Sagal Yusuf (@sagalyusuf1) February 21, 2018

From Herndon High School, whose principal sent out an email following last week's shooting about a threat of its own:

Herndon High School students standing in solidarity with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. #NeverAgain pic.twitter.com/cxvW1TKeKH

— Cheo (@LegitLevy) February 21, 2018

Herndon High School calls for #GunControlNOW #NEVERAGAIN @schoolwalkoutUS pic.twitter.com/jkoV6QiP4o

— Mac Leong #NEVERAGAIN (@xBlackEnigma) February 21, 2018

Herndon High School - VA

We DID that@studentswalkout #StudentWalkout #schoolwalkout pic.twitter.com/aN7h3fkv0P

— sheesh (@Hehaa19) February 21, 2018

Of course, the usual suspects commentators at Reston Now are treating the walkouts as the democratic exercises of free speech that they are:

Stay classy, Reston. Stay classy.