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Students around D.C. are planning to walk out of class today to protest Trump’s electoral victory and show support for those fearful of what his presidency will bring.

Groups at Woodrow Wilson High School and other public schools, as well as university students at GW, are planning to leave class early this afternoon and march to the Trump International Hotel downtown. The events are separately organized.

There has been an active social media campaign #DCPSWalkOut urging students in D.C. public schools to leave school at noon, meet at Metro Center, and march down Pennsylvania avenue to Trump hotel. Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest saw students arriving this morning with protest signs.

“As [high school] students we don’t get to vote but we’re going to be suffering the greatest consequences of what’s happened in this election,” Nico, a high school senior at Wilson who helped organize the protests, told a WUSA9 reporter. “So this is our way to unite, to come together, to show our voice, and really play a part in a country that that we really desperately want to be proud of but that we’re having a difficult time of doing right now.”

George Washington University student groups are also planning on leaving class at 3 p.m. and meeting in Kogan Plaza before marching downtown. Organizers urged protesters who do not have class at that time to wear black to show they are taking part in the walkout.

“We have a robust and diverse student body that draws from many different backgrounds and cultures. It is clear that a Trump administration will tangibly affect the lives of marginalized students,” organizers wrote in a message posted on the Facebook page of Our Revolution GW, a political student organization. “Institutions are supposed to represent people, and we must stand up for our brothers and sisters who are afraid.”

Yesterday, hundreds of high school students in Montgomery county walked out of class and marched in protest to Silver Spring. Montgomery Blaire High School students left class around 10 a.m. and marched along University Boulevard. The protest ballooned in size as students from Northwood and Albert Einstein high schools joined the procession. Although the Maryland marchers stalled traffic, many drivers honked in support and gestured peace signs. The march was peaceful and police say there were no arrests or serious incidents.

Following Trump’s victory there have been massive high school and university student walkouts in cities across the country, including in Portland, Oakland, Philadelphia, Boston and New York.

The principal at Alice Deal Middle School urged students to stay in class and sent a letter to parents encouraging them to tell their younger children not to walk out. “These are not high school students. While we care deeply about [students] and their beliefs and values, we have to make sure that they are in the end, personally safe,” the letter reads.

More walkouts are planned at GWU and at campuses across the country tomorrow to promote #SanctuaryCampus, a controversial activist movement to protect undocumented college students as well as others who may be vulnerable, including Muslims, LGBTQ people and people of color, while on campus.

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