Mollie Davis is an 18-year-old activist, writer, and civic engagement organizer. She is originally from Southern Maryland and is currently a first year student at Hollins University studying communications. 

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Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough for Students Like Me

by Mollie Davis 11-09-2018

March For Our Lives in New York. March 24, 2018. Glynnis Jones/Shutterstock.

It’s 8:20 a.m. on March 20, 2018. I’m sitting in my math class, anxiously refreshing Google, waiting for anyone to confirm what my classmates and I suspect is going on downstairs. News confirmations won’t start coming out for about another 10 minutes. We heard the sirens and knew something was wrong, but still none of us wanted to believe our worst nightmare. None of us wanted to believe a school shooting would happen to our school.