The parents of Summit elementary students are organizing a school walkout. This is NOT an event hosted or promoted by the schools.

Please send your child with a note in the AM to their teachers so they may prepare your child for dismissal at 10am.

Participants should sign out their children just before 10 am in concordance with the National walkout. Then, due to weather, we will congregate in Summit Public Library at 10:45am. We have confirmed with Chief Weck that they will send security to the event, but you must RSVP the number of children and adults coming on this website for them to plan appropriately.

We have a plan for a short program of commemorative moment of silence for the 17 lost after a short speech from our children and organizers. We will not be reading off names as this is a bit too intense for our little ones. Following the moment of silence, we will have children sharing their feelings and concerns with each other and end with a children’s art project to send to the Parkland school.

Our main goal is to empower our children and show them we care and support their safety.

We understand this is a sensitive topic and will be supportive of whatever is right for you and your child. Please email me for resources on how to talk to your children about recent events. There will also be a table of parent resources available at the event. I am also an Emergency Room Physician and willing to unofficially talk to individual adults or children about specific concerns.

Please help spread the word.

Here is the nation wide information for the walkout:

Women’s March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers, school administrators, parents and allies to take part in a#NationalSchoolWalkout for 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone on March 14, 2018 to protest Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods. We need action. Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship.

Students and staff have the right to teach and learn in an environment free from the worry of being gunned down in their classrooms or on their way home from school.

Parents have the right to send their kids to school in the mornings and see them home alive at the end of the day.

We are not safe at school. We are not safe in our cities and towns. Congress must take meaningful action to keep us safe and pass federal gun reform legislation that address the public health crisis of gun violence. We want Congress to pay attention and take note: many of us will vote this November and many others will join in 2020.

Join us in saying #ENOUGH!