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- Students at Yarmouth High School participate in a walkout to protest gun violence, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Yarmouth. Leaders of the rally address the crowd from the back of a pick-up truck in front of the school. Yarmouth is one of the few schools in Maine that did not cancel school on Wednesday as the state digs out from the third major winter storm in two weeks. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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- Students at Yarmouth High School observe a moments of silence in honor of those killed in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting during a walkout to protest gun violence, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Yarmouth. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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- Yarmouth High School student Sage Watterson reads a poem she wrote titled “Never Again,” during a walkout to protest gun violence, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Yarmouth. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
YARMOUTH (AP) — A snowstorm that dumped up to 2 feet of snow on Maine has forced postponements of many, but not all, student demonstrations demanding school safety.
But more than 200 students gathered Wednesday outside Yarmouth High School to hold a moment of silence for the victims in Parkland, Florida, and to rally against gun violence.
Sage Watterson said every student in America “goes to school with a bundle of fear tucked into their backpack.” She said people should not invoke the nation’s founding fathers “to mop up the blood on library carpets and cafeteria floors.”
Other schools had demonstrations. In Freeport, several dozen students gathered even though schools were closed.
The walkouts are in response to the killings of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month in Florida.
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