Giving Compass' Take:

• Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan is calling for a school boycott to protest the gun violence on campuses following the shooting in Santa Fe, Texas.

• How can school safety best be improved? How can students stand up for themselves without risking their education? 

• Learn why schools are actually relatively safe from gun violence.

Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan is making media waves touting an unorthodox proposal to end gun violence in schools: Taking children out of class.

Speaking on CNN’s New Day on May 21st, Duncan maintained a “provocative measure” like a school boycott is needed amid the country’s seemingly stagnant response to school shootings — the latest at a Santa Fe, Texas high school on May 18th that left eight students and two teachers dead and 13 others injured.

Duncan first retweeted the idea — piggybacking off of Education Post executive director Peter Cunningham, who worked under Duncan in the Obama administration — hours after Friday’s shooting, calling the strike proposal “brilliant, and tragically necessary.”

Duncan was education secretary from 2009 to 2015, and he acts as managing partner of Chicago Cred, an organization working to curb gun violence in the city. He’s also active on social media, retweeting activists and Parkland, Florida, shooting survivors David Hogg and Emma González as they call for increased youth voter registration.

Read the full article about a school boycott by Taylor Swaak at The 74.