CONIFER, Colo. (KDVR) — Hundreds of students at Conifer High School walked out of class Wednesday to show solidarity with Evergreen High School, just one week after the shooting.
“My mom is a teacher at Evergreen,” said Evelyn Seevers, a senior at Conifer High School who organized the walk out on Wednesday. “She was there and it wasn’t connecting to me she was in danger.”
Seevers said she decided to plan the walk out at her school when they realized students at Evergreen, since class was canceled for the week, had nowhere to protest. She said they invited students from Evergreen to join.
“It occurred to me my friends at Evergreen have nowhere to walk out, they aren’t in school and we wanted them to have a safe place to protest,” Seevers said.
The students marched from the school campus, just about a mile down to the “Staples Center” strip mall and lined up on the west side of Highway 285. They showed their protest signs as cars drove by.
“Students should be able to go to school and feel safe,” Seevers said.
Conifer High School is also in the Jefferson County School District and was placed on lockdown during the shooting.
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“We’re active rivals, we are school rivals but we’ve got their backs they are our family we are doing this cause we love them and support them,” Seevers said. “We are terrified for them and they are what pushed us into action and that’s our message to them.”
The students hoped the adults driving by on the road saw their message and took it as a step towards change.
“We are ready for this to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” Seever said. “We want to be a community worrying about my math class grades, not worrying about my peers having guns.”
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