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Fewer students walked out Friday
Apr 21, 2018 12:10 am
A second student walkout to protest gun violence in schools was held April 20, but far fewer locals participated. The Daily Freeman reported that students at Red Hook High School wrote letters to Rep. John Faso (R-Kinderhook), while sitting on grass outside the school April 20, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. In Albany, students from Albany, Bethlehem, Columbia, Guilderland, Shenendehowa and Emma Willard walked out, according to The Troy Record. They joined a rally at the state capitol that included two student speakers, Adam Alhanti and Alfonso Calderon, from the school in Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 were killed Feb. 14. On March 24 multiple local schools including those in Chatham, Catskill, Coxsackie-Athens, Ravena, Kingston, Rhinebeck, Red Hook, Bethlehem, Ballston Spa, Rondout Valley, Saugerties, Ellenville, Albany, and many other districts held similar protests. The Associated Press reported that about 150,000 students nationwide walked out on April 20, compared to almost a million on March 14.