Student punishments for gun control ‘walk-out’ ranged from detention to paddling

By Teri Webster

Hundreds of students across the nation faced punishments for participating in the national student walkout last week in support of increased gun control, according to published reports.

What were the punishments?

In Downers Grove, Illinois, 1,000 students were given an hour of detention for participating in the nationwide student walkout protest advocating for increased gun control.

Walkouts were held at schools across the nation for 17 minutes in honor of the 17 people killed in the Parkland, Florida, school massacre.

Alex Wielgosz, a junior at Downers Grove South, told Patch news: “I think our school should be encouraging us to take action as more and more school shootings seem to be happening all over the country.”

Did students know there’d be consequences?

But the school district’s superintendent, Hank Thiele, kept his word that students would face consequences for walking out.

Thiele told students and parents in an email sent on March 8 that, “we believe for students to receive the full civics lesson of what it means to participate in a protest also requires accepting the consequences for their actions,” according to reports.

Still, they chose to participate.

Thiele said after the event that students “wanted to show that the consequences were worth it …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze