Student walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school … protests” in a country where blacks were forced to live in segregated townships, denied the right to vote and … said to Hector he should not be there, and we [should] go back home.” Students run from police in Johannesburg on June …