School suspends students after walkout over gun violence
PHOENIX (AP) — Dozens of students at a Phoenix-area middle school were suspended for leaving campus during a walkout to protest gun violence and to support victims of the Florida school shooting.
More than 100 students from Ingleside Middle School participated in the Tuesday protest, which lasted 17 minutes — a minute for each person killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last month.
"We have rights and we feel like we need to express those rights to make sure that the president and all these political figures hear our voices because they haven't done anything yet, and we really think they need to make a change," eighth-grader Madeline McRoberts told KTVK-TV.