Ohio Student Suspended For Not Taking Part In Anti-Gun Walkout

By Tom Knighton

Last week’s anti-Second Amendment walkout has been touted as some great moment in American history, the moment a bunch of school kids stood up to the horrible NRA or something. It’s basically being treated like this momentous event that will change the course of history.

However, I’ve been saying that it’s not that clear from the start. Students took part in the walkout for various stated reasons, after all.

In most school districts, it seems the school provided some level of support for these walkouts. Few students faced any punishment for leaving class last Wednesday.

Meanwhile, it seems one student faced punishment for not walking out.

An Ohio high school student says he tried to remain nonpolitical during school walkouts over gun violence and was suspended for a day because he stayed in a classroom instead of joining protests or the alternative, a study hall.

Hilliard senior Jacob Shoemaker says school isn’t the place for politics, and he wasn’t taking sides Wednesday.

The district says it’s responsible for students’ safety and they can’t be unsupervised.

This leads me to wonder just how many students were pressured to walk out simply because the school figured the logistics would be easier. After all, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms