Community Colleges : 'Peaceful' Protests Not Affecting Admissions

MANCHESTER, CT – Community college officials on Monday assured applicants that their admission decision would not be affected by any discipline rendered by their high schools for participating in "peaceful" protests calling for more stringent gun control.

"This just released from @CSCUnews: Prospective students - know that your admission will not be negatively affected if you choose to participate in peaceful, responsible protests," Manchester Community College officials said in a Tweet.

Protests have sprung up or are being planned throughout the country.

A Women's March/National School Walkout is being organized for 17 minutes at 10 a.m. "across every time zone" on March 14, to protest "Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods. We need action. Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship." The duration symbolizes the Florida killings.

The Network for Public Education, an advocacy organization for public schools founded in 2013, has announced a "national day of action" on April 20. That's the the anniversary of the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, in which a dozen students and a teacher were killed when two students went on a shooting spree.

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