The Latest: Some students face suspensions after walkout
The Latest on the nationwide student walkout to protest gun violence (all times local):
4:45 p.m.
Fifteen North Carolina students have been suspended for walking out of class during a nationwide protest against gun violence, but their principal also lauded their resolve.
WITN-TV in Greenville reports 16 students at North East Carolina Prep School in Tarboro walked out of class Wednesday.
Principal Phillip Lampron told the students that if they returned to class immediately, they wouldn't be punished. One student returned, but the other 15 didn't and were given in-school suspensions.
Lampron said he told the students he was proud of them for standing up for what they believed in and for facing the consequences.