High School Students Around the Country Are Staging Walkouts to Protest Trump

As the reality of Donald Trump’s unprecedented election upset continues to settle in, high school students across the country have been getting up from their desks and walking out of class to protest the new president-elect.

Students in Arizona kicked off the movement by staging a walkout on Tuesday before the election results came in, protesting Donald Trump and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who ended up losing his reelection bid in the state. About a dozen Muslim students from North High School reportedly joined up with a group of roughly 200 students from Maryvale High School to rally near polling sites with a giant blowup figure of the notorious law man waring a prison jumpsuit, according to the Arizona Republic.

Then, early on Wednesday, students at four different high schools in Berkeley and San Jose, California, left their classrooms and staged peaceful walkouts on campus, SF Gate reports. At least 1,500 students at Berkeley High School—one known for its protests—marched across campus, chanting “not my president” and “love trumps hate.”

Hundreds of students across several Des Moines Public Schools in Iowa also stepped out of classes to protest Trump, and smaller groups of students in Seattle, Washington, and New York City also reportedly walked out of class today.

“This is a really intense learning experience for the students,” Berkeley High’s principal, Sam Pasarow, told SF Gate. “I don’t have the ability to say stop, and I’m not sure that I would.”

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