Tucson Schools Ready For March 14 Student Walkout

TUCSON, AZ – Wednesday will mark one month since 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida were massacred. Students across the country will mark the occasion by walking out of school for 17 minutes.

It's being billed as a walkout for school safety as students demand for changes including ones that would limit, if not ban, assault weapons.

Tucson students throughout the city have expressed an interest in participating.

We're allowing all of our high schools and middle schools the autonomy to create an on-campus opportunity,” district superintendent, Gabriel Trujillo, said.

At the same time, the district is making it clear that while they support the right of the students to express themselves, they want students to make sure that they stay on campus.

Any student who leaves campus will be given an unexcused absences and be expected to make up any work that they miss.

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