COBB COUNTY, GA (WSB/CNN) - Students in one Atlanta-area school district are learning they will be forced to pay a price for participating in last week's national gun control walkout.
The Cobb County School District told students before the walkout that they would be punished for leaving class, but did not specify the punishment.
At picnic tables at East Cobb Park in Marietta, Madeleine Deisen and her classmates are on a mission.
"People across the country, thousands of people, plan to march to call for common sense gun control to keep our students safe," said Deisen, a high school senior.
The students were making posters for the March For Our Lives rally this weekend.
All the while, they worry their own school administrators are on the wrong side of history.
"I think that they should have been supporting us in this,” said Natalie Carlomagno, a high school sophomore. “Truthfully, we aren't doing anything wrong. We weren't disrupting class at all."
The district is now dishing out punishment for the hundreds of cobb students who took part in last week's national walkout.
Some have already learned that they’ll receive a one day in school suspension, which will mean a day of silent study.
"I believe that the punishment should fit the crime," said Anthony Spirgle, a high school senior. "In this case, the crime is being seven minutes late to one class."
District officials declined comment on the subject and would only said the schools were administering appropriate consequences to those who violated the student code of conduct.
"I don't think we deserve this punishment at all," Carlomagno said. "We were fighting for our right to be safe. To go to school and not be killed. I don't see a fault in that."
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