Only Teen To Skip Walkout Leaves Everyone Speechless With What Was Found At Her Desk
However, what hasn't gotten the attention that's truly deserved, is the very few students
who stayed in their seats while their entire school walked out and what they endured by
doing so – and specifically, what was found at one girl's desk who didn't protest,
but left everyone speechless.
Elizabeth Busdicker is a 9th-grader at South Davis Jr.
High, who wasn't among the mass majority of the kids at her school who seemed to blindly
follow a few people's leed and walk out of school with the rest of the student body.
Sure it would have been easier to meld into the herd and not be judged and the one who
strayed away from it, but Elizabeth stayed true to herself and made the most important
statement of the day that had nothing to do with relinquishing people's rights.
"It wasn't an easy decision as almost all of her classmates stood up and stepped
out, but Elizabeth stayed put," Fox 13 reported of the Bountiful, UT girl who stood her ground
by staying in her seat.
"Some people walked past our classroom in the halls, kind of gave me these looks, but
I just felt like I was doing the right thing standing up for what I believe in," Elizabeth
said.
She admits that she doesn't agree with what the national school walkout represents, adding
that it's not stricter gun laws that prevent these shootings, it's something else, which
she realized she has the ability to change.
She did that while others protested, with a simple act that if the entire school had
done instead of walking out, could have made a much bigger difference than standing outside
with signs.
While Elizabeth was at her desk for hours, she simply wrote letters.
She made each one personal because they all carried a massive message that the signs outside
didn't.
Instead of walking out with the crowd, she walked up to people individually and handing
them a heartfelt note, with words catered to each individual person that they may need
to hear to feel noticed, important, appreciated, and valuable.
"We wrote 17 thank you notes to 17 different people in our lives to honor the lives,"
Elizabeth explained of her mission to make a real difference of what's the actual root
of the mass shooting issue.
Kids feel worthless, insignificant, bullied, and rejected – these are common emotional
denominators of "outcasts" who become killers.
"It's made me a little scared at school, but I really made a huge effort to help these
kids who look like they need a little extra help or a little more kindness in their day,"
Elizabeth said.
"It's not guns who kill people; it's people who kill people," she added.
Elizabeth and other students across the country who were small in number but big in their
statement are the real heroes.
Many of these well-raised teens who sat in their seats as others walked out around them
were scowled at, ridiculed, and taunted, as people passed by their desks, yet they stayed
anyway.
They are also the ones who have make an effort to talk to the "losers" who need someone
to know they exist.
This alone can prevent that "outcast" from committing a heinous crime…not collectively
getting up and walking out of school.
Let's promote compassion, not control.
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