SEATTLE – Seattle Public Schools students are planning to walk out of class to protest the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, one of numerous similar stunts planned by social justice warriors nationwide.
SPS officials sent a notice to families this week warning parents about the planned protests.
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“We have heard from some principals and through social media channels that our middle and high school students may choose to participate in a planned walkout on Inauguration Day, Friday, January 20,” the notice read.
“This call to action is not endorsed or sanctioned by the school district. The ‘National Student Walkout Against Trump’ has been organized by a group called Socialist Students.
“In November, ten thousand of our students safely walked out of school in response to the presidential election results. The district supports students’ rights to express their views in a peaceful manner,” it continued. “However, when civic engagement includes missing class, there are appropriate and standardized consequences. Students should understand that if they choose to participate in the January 20 walkout, they will receive an unexcused absence per board policy.”
An anonymous student who wrote in to the West Seattle Blog said the walkout at Madison Middle School will take place at 1:30, during the school’s sixth period.
“We will walk from Madison, down California, and then to the Junction and back. It would be helpful if you could post the walkout on the blog to spread the word,” the student wrote.
The Socialist Students – “A student movement for the 99 percent” – apparently doesn’t understand that Donald Trump won the 2016 election.
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A notice on the website reads:
Socialist Students is calling for nationwide walkouts against Trump’s racism, sexism, transphobia, and Islamophobia on Inauguration Day. Let’s build the strongest possible movement to defeat Trump.
The New York real estate billionaire, of course, won the 2016 presidential election against Democrat Hillary Clinton by a margin of 30 states for Trump to 20 states plus the District of Columbia for Clinton.
And despite the fact that neither Clinton nor Trump represented a socialist agenda, Socialist Students are targeting only Republicans by alleging Trump and the Republican Party are secretly plotting wide-scale attacks on women, Muslims, gays, “workers,” and “the environment.”
“Donald Trump and the Republican Party are preparing to unleash a storm of attacks on women, immigrants, the Muslim community, LGBTQ people, workers, and the environment. We must stand together in solidarity against Trump’s attempts to divide us!” according to the group’s website.
“A huge national student strike will send a clear message to Trump, the billionaire class, and the Republican Party that we reject their agenda of bigotry, hate, and division; that we reject their corporate policies to gut our social services and education.”
The Socialist Students believe it’s up to high school and college students across the nation to fight for a slate of social justice issues. The walkout is reportedly focused on ensuring “no deportations of illegal immigrants,” ending “police brutality and mass incarceration,” pushing back against alleged “Islamaphobia,” fighting to “defend and extend reproductive rights,” a movement to “make college free & cancel student debt,” efforts to “stop the Dakota Access Pipeline” in favor of “green jobs,” and to “fight discrimination and violence against the LGBTQ community!”
“That’s why high school and college students across the country are walking out of class on January 20th, Trump’s inauguration day,” the website reads.
Currently, there are resources posted to the website for students in 11 major U.S. cities to join the effort, mostly liberal strongholds like Berkeley, Calif., Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Ore., Minneapolis, Minn., Los Angeles, and others.


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