Students plan walkout from Metro Atlanta private school to protest Georgia gun laws

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Students from a Metro Atlanta private school are planning a walkout to the Georgia State Capitol to protest gun laws in the wake of the shooting at Apalachee High School.

School administrators said it was 9-to-12-year-old students who planned the walkout.

“When a group of kids works to assess and identify a problem that impacts them, when they have the strategies and tools to create a plan: where, when, and do the research to where the most impactful place would be; it moves us adults to empower them,” said Sanidia Oliver-Stone, the founder of the Morgan Oliver School.

The Morgan Oliver School is a private school that teaches Kindergarten through 8th grade.

The protest is being supported by school administrators. Students have to have a signed permission slip from their parents to leave class to join protest.

A school faculty member says around 30 students will be a part of the protest and at least 14 chaperones will be with them. School administrators invited other micro schools to join them.

The walkout was strategically planned so students could attend a meeting with senators Thursday who will talk about safe gun storage laws. Lawmakers had their second meeting on the topic the day after the shooting at Apalachee High School.

The students will be marching at 10 a.m. Thursday. Senators meet at 11 a.m.

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