A crowdfunding campaign is raising money to send pizza to more than 200 US students who were given detention for taking part in protests against school shootings.
The pupils from Pennridge High School in Pennsylvania were given Saturday morning detention after participating in a national school walkout on March 14, it was reported.
The school board had allegedly warned pupils that anybody taking part in the protest would receive the punishment for skipping class.
As students attended the first session on Saturday, Minette Nelson, from California, organised for pizzas to be delivered to the school when the detention finished, according to The Guardian.
Ms Nelson, who works with youth politics initiative EighteenX18, then launched an appeal using the hashtag #Pizza4Protesters to have pizza delivered to the school – and any others where students may have been penalised - for the next round of detentions.
The GoFundMe campaign has since launched more than £700 ($1,000).
Due to the number of pupils who participated, the detentions are scheduled to take place over the coming weekends.
Anna Sophie Tinneny, one of the students who helped to organise the protests, told The Guardian 225 students were told to sign up for detention before returning to class after they walked out of school for 17 minutes of silence to honour those killed at the Parkland school shooting in Florida.
Pupils later turned their detention into another chance to protest, staging a sit in over the weekend, wearing Parkland victims’ names and sitting, arms linked, throughout the punishment.
Their actions caught the attention of the local community on social media and pupils were greeted by wellwishers with coffee, doughnuts and cookies as they left.
One student said in an interview with Dazed: “By this point, they’re a badge of honour for us; they represent how passionate we are about the issue.”
The school had reportedly organised its own event, a silent remembrance assembly, to commemorate victims of the shooting.
