From Maine to Hawaii, students are planning 3,000 school walkouts to protest gun violence on Wednesday

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• Students across the US plan to stage a walkout to protest gun violence on Wednesday.
• They will leave class for 17 minutes in honor of the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14.
• But some school districts say they will punish students for participating or making explicit political messages.

From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month’s massacre of 17 people at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

In nearly 3,000 protests nationwide, students from the elementary to college level are taking up the call in a variety of ways. Some planned roadside rallies to honor shooting victims and protest violence.

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