(SEATTLE) Students will return this morning to a Seattle high school for the first time since a classmate was shot and killed last Tuesday.
Seattle School Superintendent Brent Jones told us just after last week’s shooting at Ingraham High School that staff would be coached for this morning for how they can receive students.
“and welcome them back to a ‘welcoming’ environment in light of what happened,” Jones said at a press conference.
And while students will return for the first classes, several plan to leave at 9:50am for a planned walkout. During the demonstration, they’ll head to Seattle City Hall, we they say they’ll ask that MILLIONS to be taken from the police budget, and reallocated for school mental health counselors and other safety measures.
“Since it was so close to home, I feel like it’s becoming a bigger issue than it was in the past,” one student told our news partner KOMO-4.
Another student said “we’re not gonna stand for people not caring for our safety.”
Today’s walkout is expected to not just include Ingraham students, but students from other Seattle middle and high schools as well.