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Teachers Bonnie Koo, left, and Kelly Gresalfi speak with kindergarten and first-grade students about a safer-world project at PS1 Pluralistic School in Santa Monica, Calif., on Friday. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon for The Wall Street Journal
By
Leslie Brody
If children in kindergarten can practice active-shooter drills, then they can also walk out to call for safety, some parents and educators say.
Plans to protest on March 14, which began with high-school shooting survivors in Parkland, Fla., are spreading to include elementary schools. Schools are grappling with how to address the event with children as young as 5 years old and with finding ways for children who are too little to be told about school shootings to take part.
The protest calls for students nationwide to walk out of class at 10 a.m. for 17 minutes, one minute in honor of each victim at February’s shooting in Parkland.
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Some of the most organized events are at schools with progressive traditions and parent bodies. At Manhattan Country School, a private school with a social justice mission in New York City, children in prekindergarten through fourth grade will sing the peace songs “If I Had a Hammer” and “Paz y Libertad.”
And at PS1 Pluralistic School in Santa Monica, Calif., elementary students wrote their wishes for a safer world on small pieces of rice paper, to be hung from a large piece of driftwood in a schoolwide ceremony. Children said they wished for houses for the homeless, kindness, an end to drought and more wishes. Although teachers didn’t mention anything about firearms, they were on at least one boy’s mind.
Student Wishes
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