George Jenkins Student Live Streams Her School's Walkout

LAKELAND, FL -- George Jenkins High School senior, Kala Ivy Tedder, narrated a live Facebook stream of her school's walkout Wednesday, March 14, as part of the national school walkout to honor the students killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Tedder, who was interviewed in the Patch article, Tampa Bay Students Prepare To Walk Out of School For 17 Minutes, helped organize the walkout at her school in Lakeland with the blessing of school administrators.

Thousands of students across the country participated in the National School Walkout memorial protests, which come a month to the day after a gunman shot and killed 17 people at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Emboldened by a growing protest movement, the students left their classrooms for 17 minutes — one minute to remember each person murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — beginning at 10 a.m. in their local time zones for the National Student Walkout.

In Parkland, Florida, students streamed past a school fence that has been turned into a memorial for the 17 people killed on Feb. 14. They chanted "MSD" — for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — then gathered in a massive circle to sing a song written by several students after the shooting.

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Video by Kala Ivy Tedder