From my kid's HS

About 2000 of our students walked out today, 2/21/18, at approximately noon in honor of the 17 victims from Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Staff members directed them to grassy areas in front of our building. Security and assistant principals were monitoring the peaceful protest. Students exited and reentered the building in an orderly fashion and were outside for approximately 17 minutes before returning to class and/or lunch. About 75 students remain outside currently, under the supervision of our security staff.

We respects the rights of our students to engage in peaceful protest and express their opinions through speech and other ways as long as it is done respectfully, does not interfere with the rights of others, and does not disrupt learning in the school. Our school is committed to providing an environment where everyone is treated with respect and encouraged to help others.

Our teachers, administrators and staff continue to reinforce a sense of positive school community and we ask for your partnership in working with your child to discuss meaningful actions that they can take to engage in their community.

So, basically, a safe and healthy lesson in community and peaceful protest. As the days and weeks go on the lesson will be reinforced as the students come to understand how pointless and futile it actually was.

Contrast that with the case linked below, where students are learning the value of how authoritarianism does not tolerate disruptions of any sort.