Students in Los Angeles walk out of classes in anti-Trump protest

Demonstrators have gathered across the California and the nation in the six days since Trump was elected.

Students from at least three Pierce County high schools walked out of school Monday afternoon to protest the presidential election of Donald Trump and what they say is a risky direction that threatens their futures. Some students said they had the approval of administrators.

“Trump is threatening our core value of tolerance as a city”. Protests also broke out at major US college campuses, which often have left-leaning student bodies, including some that morphed into contentious clashes between Clinton and Trump supporters.

They began at the high school football field and walked about 6 miles through the city to Veterans Plaza, he said.

A group of students at Piedmont Middle School expressed their disapproval of the protest when marchers walked by, said Isabella Terrazas, a senior at Oakland Technical High. “Say it clear! Immigrants are welcome here!”

Some carried signs that read “Deport Trump”, while others waved the U.S., Mexican and gay pride flags.

People take part in a protest against President-elect Donald Trump in front of Trump Tower in NY on 10 November 2016. “Dealing with people who said “Deal with it” alienated me”.

Similar protests happened elsewhere around the US on Monday, including Seattle and Los Angeles. “I’m anxious about what’s going to happen to my community and my friends”.

The students’ schools are among the most diverse in the county-Blair’s population is 25 percent black and 32 percent Latino, Northwood is 24 percent black and 53 percent Latino, and Einstein is 20 percent black and 47 percent Latino.

The four girls estimated about a hundred students from Einstein left classes and joined the group at Westfield Wheaton. “Racism continues, and there are these people that now feel like they have power at school due to the election, and they’re making it really hard for us to focus on our education”.

A Seattle Public Schools spokesman said students who walked out of classes there will receive an “unexcused absence” mark. Monday’s protests happened in Los Angeles, Denver, Portland, Ore., and Silver Spring, Md., among others.

In a televised statement, LA Unified officials encouraged students to stay in class and cooperate with school officials to plan protests on campus.

“We are going to support the students, but we want them in classrooms”, Garcia said. Most of the protests have been peaceful. No arrests were made.

In a her own statement released Monday morning, LAUSD superintendent King said she understood students’ concerns about the outcome of the presidential election but urged them to remain on campus.

“I am here because I feel like we are our parent’s voices, said Fatima Rodriguez, another Arise High School student”.

Organizers say protesters want to show support for immigrants, Muslims, gay people and other communities they say will be vulnerable under a Trump administration.