More than 100,000 city students participated in the March 14 national walkout to protest for stronger gun-control laws—and Jessica Stillman, an English Teacher at a Queens high school and alum of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where 17 people were killed a month earlier, couldn’t be prouder.
“It was beautiful,” the Townsend Harris High School Teacher said of her school’s response. About 900 its 1,200 students participated. Students and faculty went to a nearby field and read the names of the victims at Marjory Stoneman Douglas; Ms. Stillman read the first name. The school’s Principal asked the President of Queens College—which shares a campus with Townsend Harris and an elementary school—to ring its bell 17 times in honor of the victims. The elementary-school children could be heard singing nearby.
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