"Like any other parent, I've been all nervous and kind of scared," says Jeanine Gasper a mother who lives in Allendale but grew up in Florida not far from Parkland.
A lot of Gasper's family still lives in South Florida -- her sister works at a hospital just east of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
"She told me that a 17-year-old kid came in crying and checking the hospital for his friend," says Gasper.
Gasper says the shooting has rocked the community she grew up in but she's also admired how people in South Florida have come together and rallied around the students.
"These kids have just blown everything out of the water, they are amazing and they inspire me," says Gasper.
Their movement has inspired a national walkout scheduled for Wednesday with thousands of schools across the country participating including more than a dozen in West Michigan. But Gasper has a problem with school leaders getting so involved in the walkout.
"The students had asked for students across the nation to walkout for 17 minutes, why don't we just do what they asked us to do? Instead of trying to make assemblies and all this other stuff, they asked for something very simple and I feel like a lot of schools are trying to make this bigger," says Gasper.
She wants adults to take a backseat.
"It's important as the adults in this situation to listen to the students, they don't have a lot of say when it comes to voting, most of them are younger than 18 and this is their way of being heard," says Gasper.
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