Between 100-150 Issaquah High School students staged a walkout on Nov. 14, in solidarity with numerous other school districts around the region.

Issaquah High Principal Andrea McCormick said in an email that the students who organized the event planned it “to make a statement that we as a student body will not tolerate hate at the school or anywhere else in our lives.” She also stressed the walkout was not a protest to the election, in contrast to an earlier email sent by the school district to families.

School administrators would not allow members of the media on campus during the walkout.

McCormick said in a statement that the walkout was not endorsed by the school, and that the movement was entirely “student-planned and student-led.” She said that the school would be running on its usual schedule with its standard attendance procedures, and that any absences would be treated as unexcused.

“Unexcused absences have natural classroom consequences of missing whatever instruction is occurring,” McCormick said.

McCormick stated that the school is very diverse, with a blend of different races, religions, genders and political opinions.

“We have always and will continue to say that if anyone, at any point in time, is made to feel unsafe or unwelcome they should report it immediately to a trusted adult,” she said.

When describing the school’s wish for how students can learn from the election, McCormick included a quote from Huffington Post contributor Ali Michael’s post-election article, “What Do We Tell The Children?”

“Teach them how to engage in discussion—not for the sake of winning, but for the sake of understanding and being understood,” the quote stated. “Students need to learn how to check facts, to weigh news sources, to question taken-for-granted assumptions, to see their own biases, to take feedback, to challenge one another. We need to teach students how to disagree — with love and respect.”

In the high school’s mock election, 60 percent of students gave their support to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, while 25 percent supported Republican nominee Donald Trump. 10 percent supported Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and 5 percent supported Green candidate Jill Stein.

Elsewhere around the region, dozens of students also walked out of class on Monday afternoon.

In Kirkland, several hundred students at Juanita and Lake Washington high schools walked out of class in protest of the recent presidential election.

Juanita junior Tamani Smart, who was among the organizers at Juanita High, said she had already talked the protest over with her mother.

“Our reason for marching is because there are so many people who felt so strongly about Donald Trump’s election,” said Smart, 16. “I just care about marginalized communities. People don’t give us a voice, but we are the future. That’s why I’m here today is to show that our lives matter.”

“We’ve seen, outside of our classrooms, people crying,” Smart said. “For me personally, I couldn’t stop crying. This is something that I knew people cared about, especially as we grow older. We have opinions too, you know?”

In Bellevue, Sammamish High School students said they walked out of class and marched along 140th Avenue Northeast because they wanted to show their support for minorities, LGBT people, women, immigrants and other groups they felt had been marginalized or insulted by President-elect Donald Trump.

Sammamish student Ellie Adams said that she has seen the impact of the election nationally and locally.

“I didn’t come to school on Wednesday because I was so upset about the election. Mostly about the vice president [Pence], who is in favor of electroshock therapy for gay people. I’m pansexual. We’re here today to support one another,” Adams said.

In Redmond, the student’s demonstration was more about bringing people together.

Senior Michael Li, who participated in the walkout, said the goal was for students to come together to show their support andlove for each other. The 17-year-old said many students wore safety pins, a symbol that has emerged in the last week forpeople to show their solidarity with one another to keep each other safe.

Li said he participated in the walkout because he feels there has been more open discrimination since the election. And someof that discrimination has been personal.

As a Running Start student, he attends Bellevue College part time and in the last week since Trump was elected, people haveshouted racist remarks at him as he’s walked around campus.

“Can you see out of those eyes?” was one example of the types of comments Li, who is Asian American, has been getting.

Reporter staff writers Allison DeAngelis, Samantha Pak and John William Howard contributed to this report.