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Ohio students join national school walkout for gun control Friday: video

This latest student walkout comes 19 years after the shootings at Columbine High School.

Students at high schools across the country -- including here in Northeast Ohio -- walked out of class Friday, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting, in their latest push for gun control.

WKYC had crews at Cleveland Heights and Chagrin Falls high schools to capture the walkout.

Multiple students spoke at Cleveland Heights High School after a brief moment of silence. One of the speakers listed the names of those killed in school shootings across the country.

Another student read a poem:

Students at Chagrin Falls High School held 17 minutes of silence to remember the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February:

There aren't any students walking out at the Colorado school where the violence took place because classes at Columbine are canceled just as they have been every April 20 since the 1999 massacre.

The school is sticking with its tradition of holding a day of service on Friday.

The current and former Columbine principals recently urged other nearby high schools to join them rather than participate in walkouts. Columbine junior Kaylee Tyner says the shooting anniversary is a day to remember those lost in the shooting.

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