Approximately 20 students from West Boca Raton High School, Fla., staged a walk-out during school Tuesday and have embarked on a 10-mile walk to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of the Feb. 14 massacre.
WATCH: Students from Florida's West Boca High School have walked out of their classes, heading towards Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as part of a call-to-action by students in the area after the mass shooting last week that killed 17 people https://t.co/JoGj3r547e pic.twitter.com/yqeNwj9PVM— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 20, 2018
The Boca Raton high school is located five miles north of the Parkland, Fla., school as the crow flies, but students staging the march must take a longer route to get there on foot.
Students in the Tuesday march hope to call on other students in the region to get involved in the protests, CBS reported.
The students were escorted by three law enforcement vehicles.
A group of students from South Florida plan to travel north to the state’s capital in Tallahassee to call for tighter restrictions on gun laws in the state legislature.
Three major protests have been planned across the country this spring in the wake of the Valentine’s Day shooting that claimed 17 lives and wounded 14 others.
