DPS students protest election results
Students in California high schools staged walkouts, while many marched onto streets and other California campuses.
Several thousand students in Seattle also protested. -Mexican border, an increase in deportations of people in the country illegally and a ban on Muslims entering the United States. She said the head of the administration allowed students to leave and was going to waive the typical punishment for an unexcused absence. They started at the Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue and went to the Library of Congress, and the Washington Monument.
“We will not accept Trump s sexism, racism, his put-down of LGBT folks”, one student told the ABC7 news channel in Los Angeles on Monday. Fremont Unified School District Superintendent James Morris also came to observe the students.
Massive groups of teenagers, many of whom are not old enough to vote, clutched signs and banners as they shared concerns over the president-elect’s stance on minorities. Some protest signs were in Spanish. Most of the student protests have been centered in areas where Democrat Hillary Clinton won at the polls, including states along each coast, major cities, and on college campuses nationwide. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries, bears responsibility for Trump’s stunning upset.
“No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here”, one placard read.
Ever since Trump won the U.S. presidential elections, hundreds of thousands of people in major cities in the United States have taken to the streets rejecting Trump’s presidency.
In a city that has seen large and destructive protests, a few hundred students from several schools walked out of class to gather in the rain near City Hall. “We stand for the rights of our student peers and of communities of color, undocumented communities, immigrant communities, LGBTQ communities, women and anyone feeling threatened by the election results”. Leading these protests across America are the millennial, which constitute students from schools and colleges.
Stephanie Cierra is an 18-year-old Los Angeles high school senior who walked out of school Monday to protest Donald Trump’s election.
Organizers said about 3,000-4,000 students in all attended the event, was peaceful.
The group encouraged other schools to participate as well.
All of the schools belong to the Northeast Consortium in Montgomery County Public Schools.
Police identified and arrested at least one of the juveniles involved in the incident.