As part of a globally-coordinated climate strike on March 15, 2019, about 5,000 students from all over NYC met in Columbus Circle and marched to the American Museum of Natural History.
At the climate strike on March 15, 2019.
Several hundred Beacon students walked out of class on Mar. 15, 2019 and made their way to Columbus Circle, where thousands of high school students from other NYC schools met before marching uptown.
On Dec. 6, 2019, several thousand students participated in the third major climate change strike of the year. Protestors circled City Hall before filing into Foley Square where speakers, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, called for stronger local and federal environmental legislation.
Teens Take Charge, a coalition led by NYC students advocating for more equitable high school admissions, held a protest at the Tweed Courthouse in Manhattan. Students of color wearing black sat on the left side of the steps, while white students wearing white sat on the right, visually representing school segregation.
After the Parkland, FL school shooting, students from across the city walked out of school on April 20, 2018 to protest the lack of gun control legislation.
Climate change, school shootings, high-school integration: these are issues that have drawn New York City high school students out of the classroom and into the streets for the past several years. Jeremy Weine, a senior at The Beacon School, has chronicled the walkouts, sit-ins and strikes that student activists have led and participated in.