On Friday, about 50 students at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School protested, and more walked out of school around noon to advocate against school shootings across America.
Many strutted out of the student entrance looking straight ahead and clutching the bright straps of their backpacks. Cold gusts of air blew against cardboard signs reading, “Books Not Bullets” and “Enough” in thick black Sharpie. Cars rushed by as a group of girls in choir started singing the protest song “Resilience” by Abbie Betinis.
“I’m standing here with a borrowed sign and the brightest shirt I own,” senior Roman Fent said. “All that matters is we achieve change.”…