Thousands of students will be serving punishments this weekend for taking part in National School Walkout Day on Wednesday.
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Kids left class across the country on Wednesday to call for tougher gun control laws in the wake of the Parkland, Fla. high school shooting.
According to CNN, a school district in South Carolina says it punished more than 500 students.
Students in a district near Atlanta were told they could be suspend for five days for leaving class, and more than 200 students in Allentown, Pa. are set to serve Saturday detention tomorrow.
Many of the students say it was worth it.
"We will not be complicit. There's so much more to us than our phones and texting and all the stuff kids these days are doing or ruining or whatever," one student said.
The ACLU says that schools are allowed to punish kids for leaving class, but it's looking through reports from students who say they were punished unfairly.
