Groups of students across the country walked out of their classrooms Friday to bring attention to gun violence in schools. The group Students Demand Action led more than a hundred registered walkouts today across the country, including several in Wake County.
In Morrisville, about 200 students at Wake Early College of Information and Biotechnologies held a demonstration at noon.
Senior Biruk Yidnekachew, the school’s student body president, helped organize the march with the Young Citizens Club. He said it’s a reaction to the recent shooting of students attending mass with their classmates at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis at the start of this school year…