FIFTH OPENING – The Sitka seine boats Hukilau and Rose Lee pump herring aboard this afternoon at the end of Deep Inlet during the fifth opening in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery. The opening was being held in two locations beginning at 11 a.m. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson) 

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MEHS Students Join Walkout on Shootings

By ABIGAIL BLISS
Sentinel Staff Writer
    A wave of coordinated demonstrations against gun violence swept high schools across the country this morning, reaching Mt. Edgecumbe High School at 10 a.m. local time.
    Some 30 MEHS students stood up, walked out of their classrooms, and congregated in the school parking lot to stand in solidarity with the victims of last month’s school shooting in Florida and send a message to political leaders about their priorities and political will.
    The national protest, which has touched some 3,000 schools countrywide, was expected to last 17 minutes, in honor of the 17 students and teachers who lost their lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, one month ago.
    At Mt. Edgecumbe, the first students to step outside had walked out of their “Senior Futures” class and stood huddled near the water squinting in the sunlight.
    Some students said they were participating out of compassion for the Parkland students and all other mass-shooting victims who had gone before.
    “We feel for them,” said senior Agatha Andrews. “I don’t want them to feel that they’re being put aside and not cared about and that we’re not fighting for them, for all of them who’ve experienced it.”
    “I just have a lot of respect for those who are doing it (protesting) because it’s not acceptable for young, innocent students to be in these harmful situations,” said Daisy Hunt. “We just want everybody to be protected.”
    Another protester, substitute teacher Mitch Wenz, said he had walked out in resistance to the numb acceptance that marks the aftermath of school shootings in America.
    “The current situation is kind of out of control,” he said. “I remember growing up, and there was not ever a gun shooting. Not once in a school, and now ... we’re not even shocked anymore. I think we’re becoming kind of numb to it.”
    He acknowledged that the conversation surrounding gun control took on a singular dimension in Alaska absent from debates in urban areas in the lower 48.
    “I think Alaska, we’re in a unique place because one could argue we do need guns out here. It’s a way of life. However, do we need something that can shoot, you know, 200 rounds in a couple minutes?... I think these guys should be able to go to school and feel safe.”
    Other students said they were motivated to join their peer protesters across the country by the perpetual inaction of political leaders. Someone, they said, had to pick up the slack.
    “It’s good that kids our age, high schoolers, are taking a stand because the government kind of isn’t doing anything about it, and it just keeps happening,” said Jenalee VanDyke. “It happened how many times this year? And it’s probably still going to happen if nothing is going to be done about it... Where are all the adults? And what about the government? What are they doing right now to stop all of this?”
    “Besides getting money,” added classmate Jessyca Creasey.
    “This is students taking a stand, and it’s not any political leaders,” said Andrea Cook. “We are the future, whether people like it or not.”
    Sitka High School, where students are on spring break, was quiet.

Comments  

 
# david curran 2018-03-14 22:41
Fire the Sub Teacher, he is getting a paycheck to teach not to protest. The picture also shows the students smiling and checking their cell phones, not much of a way to protest in my opinion. They just wanted time out of class. Lets see them protest on a Saturday, won't happen.
 

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March 2004

Matthew C. Hunter of Sitka recently returned from Cuba as part of a St. Olaf College International and Off-Campus Studies program. Hunter, a junior physics major at St. Olaf College, is the son of Robert and Kim Hunter of Sitka.


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