Following the widespread support and recognition for the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas school shooting, over 2,500 walkouts were staged across the world at American military bases. Highlighting gun safety issues throughout the United States, school walkouts took place in areas as distant as Tokyo, Germany, and South Korea. According to the overarching organization distributing information for the walkouts, the protests intended “...[to encourage] Congress to ban assault weapons, require universal background checks for gun purchases and allow courts to disarm gun owners who display warning signs of violent behavior.” In the various military bases featured by the organization, approximately 150 demonstrators left class for 17 minutes, one minute for each victim of the Parkland shooting. Because these protests took place on military base schools, The Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) was required to give permission to each individual protest or set the allowances for expression. After the demonstrations began to rapidly spread across the world, DODEA signed a blanket statement encouraging the protests and permitting them to miss school.

In 1968 Mexican-American high school students struck back against the biased education system in East L.A. by walking out. Influenced by groups like the Brown Berets, and intellectual spaces like La Piranya, the walk-outs carried out during this time are considered one of the first acts of mass militancy by Mexican-Americans in California. Across the county, students began walking out mid-lessons in protest of conditions at the schools that fostered the failure of countless students. The “blowouts' ' were met with police aggression, yet despite this, the protestors pressed on with their walk-outs and demands until the education board started adopting protesters’ demands, like smaller class sizes. The walkouts set the stage for the Chicano movement to take hold in the American political scene, setting the tone for Latino activism during the era. Pete Martinez, a former teacher at one of the epicenter schools, said “in 1968, the kids kicked the doors open,” and effectively transformed future generations of Latinos in the nation.

Tired of controversial commencement speakers, college students are taking a stand and walking out. At Notre Dame, an elite Catholic University, students walked out during the then U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s commencement speech. After the Notre Dame administration extended an invitation to the Vice President, despite student petitions against the speaker, an activist group known as We StaND For went the next step and left their graduation. We StaND For utilized the walk-out tactic to demonstrate their open disapproval with the Trump administration’s policies and an unpopular former Indiana governor.