Student walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in Soweto marched out of school, protesting an apartheid … officials, none of them will be risking their lives. In Soweto, a black township just outside Johannesburg, defiance … than 566 students dead and thousands more injured. The Soweto protest began about 7 a.m., when students filed out of …