At 10 a.m. Wednesday, Justin Blackman got up from his desk and calmly walked out of Mr. Mendez’s Spanish class. When he got outside, he discovered he was the only one.
Yesterday was National School Walkout day to protest stricter gun law and remember the lives lost in the Parkland school shooting.
Of the approximately 700 students at Wilson Preparatory Academy in Wilson, North Carolina, 16-year-old Justin was in a company of one during the national school walkout.
Read what happened when he went back inside the school at CNN.com
High School Student In Wilson “Walked Out” Alone was originally published on thelightnc.com