Skyline High students stage walkout protest against ‘unsafe conditions’

A whole bunch of scholars walked out of Skyline Excessive Faculty in Oakland right this moment to protest gun violence. The strike comes after an incident final Wednesday, November 12, when the college was positioned on lockdown after a young person was shot on campus. In accordance with the Oakland Police Division, two college students have been arrested and charged in reference to the incident, every in possession of “ghost weapons.” OPD mentioned the injured scholar is predicted to recuperate.

A name to motion from college students mentioned they walked out to protest “unsafe circumstances,” “an absence of safety for college kids” and “the federal government’s failure to take motion.”

“We deserve higher,” the announcement reads. “We should really feel secure. We should be heard.”

Final Wednesday, Assistant Police Chief James Beere mentioned officers acquired a name a couple of capturing on campus simply earlier than 1:30 p.m. He mentioned police supplied medical consideration to a minor sufferer earlier than transporting him to a neighborhood hospital.

Two suspects have been arrested, he mentioned, and police have seized two firearms. Beere didn’t say whether or not the folks concerned have been college students, however confirmed they have been all minors.

“The violence we see in faculties, within the metropolis and throughout the nation is disgusting,” Beere mentioned. “, these are our youngsters, and simply getting access to firearms is unbelievable, not to mention the violence occurring on and round our campuses.”

Skyline Excessive principal Rebecca Huang has known as a group assembly later this week to debate issues from college students, dad and mom and workers.

Final Wednesday’s lockdown was the third of the college yr for college kids at Skyline, a big public highschool within the hills of Oakland. On September 26, college students have been despatched to a safe protocol when OPD responded to a report of a scholar on campus with a firearm; that report was decided to be false. Then, on Nov. 4, the scholars have been positioned in safe protocol for a second time as a result of, Skyline mentioned, the college’s safety workforce was attempting to take away “an upset father or mother on campus.”

Skyline has skilled quite a lot of violent incidents in recent times, together with a stabbing injured a student in 2022A shooting in 2023 with no obvious victims, and a capturing after commencement in 2024 that injured three folks.

It is a creating story and The Oaklandside has reporters on campus; test again for updates.