“We cannot stop these hateful bills from becoming law. They are ignoring us. They are not dealing with our perspectives.”
) brought together a coalition of youth organizations from across the state and united a coalition of organizations on the ground in the lead up to Walkout 2 Learn.Team dinner with Walkout 2 Learn organizers on day three in SarasotaWalkout 2 Learn’s day of action is multipronged, but the heart of the event will be the school walkouts taking place at 12 p.m. on more than 300 Florida college and high school campuses, the coalition says.
At each walkout location, students will be prompted through a series of three steps in under 20 minutes, organizers say. First, students will walk out of their classrooms at more than 300 high school and college campuses across the state. Second, students will be asked to sign an ‘Active Pledge,’ which prompts folks to check their voter registration and to register to vote if they are unregistered. And third, they’ll hear a five-minute banned history lesson from a student peer.
Walkout 2 Learn’s organizers also have personal reasons for getting involved. For instance, Maxx Fenning, now a 20-year-old senior at the University of Florida and part of the Walkout 2 Learn coalition, started an organization in high school called PRISM FL to “expand access to LGBTQ-inclusive education and sexual health resources in Florida.”
Meanwhile, Gaby Diaz-Vendrell, a 20-year-old student at Barnard College who is from Jacksonville, says there was no official GSA at her religious high school and that her school’s sex-ed curriculum was very limited.
Eighteen-year-old Cameron Driggers, who attends Flagler-Palm Coast High School — the same high school where gay activistwas suspended after distributing Pride flags during a rally against the “Don’t Say Gay” bill last year — says that while growing up in what he refers to as a “very conservative area” in Florida, he faced instances of discrimination because of his sexuality, such as when he tried to join athletic organizations.
While acknowledging that these bills will likely become law, Walkout 2 Learn is adamant that it needs to reset expectations, noting that Florida’s young people are pragmatic about the state and their futures. .
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