By Veronica Morley and Marilu Cisneros

Managing Editor and Multimedia Editor

Schools in Bakersfield joined National Walkout day on March 14th in honor of the one month anniversary of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Centennial High School hosted their own walkout with a 17 minute presentation in their quad.

“The fact that every single time an alarm or an announcement goes off at our school everybody goes silent and stares and hopes that we don’t hear an announcement that there’s a shooter on campus,” said Centennial walkout organizer, Sydney Trowbrigde.

Some parents came to the school during the walkout to stand in solidarity their students.

“Well I’m here to support them and every other student who wants to come to school and not worry about being shot,” said Debbie Landry, a parent of two students at Centennial High School.

Even though some parents were in support of the walkout, others were unhappy about the event.

Centennial security allerted us to one parent who came to the school to see if her child was in class. When she discovered the student was in fact not in class during the walkout, she was then given permission to go onto the campus and look for their child.

We approached this parent but she declined to comment.

Administration could not officially take stand on the walkout but they did not interfere with the presentation and they provided security for the event.

“It shows that we’re here in solidarity, it’s not just us that are speaking for everyone,” said Centennial walkout organizer, Aarushi Kapoor.

Other high schools such as Independence, Stockdale, Frontier, and Foothill participated in the national movement with their own walkouts or moments of silence.