Discussion this morning, should the be consequences for students missing school or are they exercising their freedom of speech . Phone lines for you this morning, if you are a student, call us at 2027488000. Parents, 2027488001. If you are a teacher or administrator, call us at 2027488002. All others, call 2027488003. You can also send your thoughts on social media, using twitter or you can leave us a message at facebook. Com cspan. Host of these walkout at high schools have been peaceful. Some reports of violence in a few cases. Here is an overview of the protest from usa today students and multiple high schools, most too young to vote stage walkouts on wednesday in protest of the president elect. Chanting lets dump donald , people broke into song at Roosevelt High School and chanted in spanish at Hoover High School and 20 students walked out of valley high in west des moines, iowa. They allowed the students protest and get participants unexcused absences. A story in Education Week by madeline will that says in a handful of schools including berkeley, california, phoenix, des moines, iowa, students and in some cases teachers stage walkouts in protest of the win andan nominees physical outbursts and confrontation as emotions ran high. Teachers must ease the divisions in the classrooms and sued the fierce of their students of color while giving all students space to process their feelings about the elections outcome. Joining us to talk about her story in Education Week is madeline will, assistant editor at a catch Education Week. Good morning. Guest thank you for having me. Host how widespread are these protests and the number of students . Guest i only saw student walkouts in major cities across the country. Phoenix, omaha, des moines, iowa, seattle, miami, denver, washington, d. C. Thousands of students have walked out of class in since the protest started the day after the election. In some cases, it will be a handful of students and in some cases it is students from multiple schools across the districts or cities. Host these are protest of people unhappy with Donald Trumps election, are you seeing demonstrations of those cheering his victory . Dost a couple of students support donald trump joined the protest to have their voices heard. Host you mention of emotions have been running high at schools. Half these protests largely been peaceful and have they been reported incidences of violence . Guest for the most part, the protests have been peaceful. There has been a couple of isolated instances of violence. , a suburbery county of washington, d. C. , a 15yearold students who wore a make America Great again hat was beaten by students when a political argument turned violent during the walkout. Administrators are concerned about student safety and warning students that they cannot guarantee their safety if they leave class. Host we have seen protest from adults across the country, is there something unique about these students protesting, or a special way we should think about them because they may be too young to vote and they may be doing this during school time . Guest i think the students are too young to vote. Chanceel this is their to have their voices heard, they want to tell donald trump they are watching and listening and that they care. As teachers have taught students throughout the election, there involvedways to be than just voting and protest is one way. Host how are schools and administrators dealing with this . You mentioned a district in iowa gave students unexcused absences , is that the case for schools across the country . I think most schools giving students unexcused absences if they leave class. Host what about teachers, how should they approach talking with students about this in the classroom . Guest teachers are trying to heal some of these divisions that trickle down into the classroom. Teachers have to get students from both sides of the political an ability to and talk about their feelings and process emotions in a constructive way. I know a lot of teachers are using this as an opportunity to educate their students about the foundations of democracy. , lot of students are scared teachers are talking about checks and balances and the limits of president ial power. ,ost that is madeline will assistant editor at Education Week teacher. Thank you for joining us. Our topic this morning is your view of student walkout in protest of Donald Trumps election. We turn to our first caller, chris from maryland. Chris is a parent. Did i get the name of your tell correct . Town caller i live in only, maryland. I watch this event happened on the news the first time you as soon as the first School Protest started, i felt and still feel like and after it was listed yesterday firsthand, the ority of the students now most of them, not all, have no idea what is going on. What i witness yesterday was the majority of them were there to be entertained by the event and they were not interested in what was really going on, they were not protesting about donald trump, they were having fun with the Police Following them, jumping around making noise. In front of my work is where they began to protest and they stopped they stood in the road for five minutes, 10 minutes and stop traffic. They said nothing and sat there in the crowd. They mumbled things but i heard nothing about donald trump or clinton or the protest. There were a few of the kids who have sides. Who had signs. There were 50 of the kids and my work is next to a high school. Told me that a few of his friends and students decided that they were going to leave and they left. There was 50 of them trying to rally up more kids to come with them. They only got 50. But itnt back to school is my opinion that the majority of them were just using this as an opportunity to get away from school. Host you said that your son participated, did you support that . Did he ask for permission . Host caller he did not participate. I would have supported him had he been as involved as i was and his mother was in the election. To me, personally, most of these kids are only hearing either from their parents or from other students or from people around them. Tidbits of information of what is really going on, whether a good piece of information or a bad piece of information, they are not getting the full story here that makes me feel as if they do not know what is going on and they really want to do aprotesting and away way to get out of school and get on the news. They had new shoppers yesterday. News choppers yesterday. Callingeve from florida on the line for all others. What do you think . Caller i think it is great and support the young people. It is great that finally there is a generation that has reembraced the concept of solidarity. It seems like ever since ronald reagan, solidarity has been considered taboo. It seems like, in the last 35 years, we have had our rights eroded as employees and consumers. As far as Consumer Finance and health care. We have sat and watched legislation that gets passed that hurts us as consumers. Finally, there is a generation that says, solidarity is not a bad thing. Host next up is steve from lexington park, maryland, calling on the line for teachers. How have you addressed this in the classroom . I taught Public School for 31 years and retired and am a professor at a university for the past 20 years. I was a student during the vietnam war, so i know what the protests i have had that experience. I believe it is a great learning experience for the students. Of their constitutional rights. Years, some of the students will be voting for the first time. I think they have every right to i think they have every right. Other citizens when they protest they take off from work. The students are taking off from school. I know some teachers at schools where they the School Administrators are supervising the children all they protest. Usually it is done on school grounds. I encourage it as a good learning experience as long as they keep it nonviolent. Ministersou think the administrators should provide students excused absences during that time . Caller they are missing class but i am going on the premise that it is a learning experience , therefore it is part of the school curriculum. Especially in civics class. They learn this is a part of their constitutional rights. Host a related comment from twitter, 1960 student walkouts, marches, demonstrations, help stop the vietnam war, maybe these will limit the damage donald trump could cause. Dorothy is apparent in baltimore, maryland, what do you think is a parent in baltimore, maryland, what do you think . Caller two of my children participated in the protests here and they knew why they were protesting. People keep saying they do not but you see the signs said you know why they are protesting and if you watch the crowds you see they are all racist, white, black, hispanics, what have you. Twoe stating that Young Children now, they are not separatist like we are, they live together and they are friends, they like each other. In a president that has just been elected, this is what they have seen and this is what donald trump show them, no doubt about it, he showed them a tie for president that they have never seen talking the way he does. So the children are not liking that because he is always have president s since i have been spoke and talker the way they find that horrendous. They do know why they are marching. They are not marking the election, they are marching against a person who is representing their country which they do not want to have a country that he has projected. They want to be together as they are and they do. I am proud of them, as long as it is nonviolent. Student,s hear from a from clinton, maryland, good morning. Caller can you knew me can you hear me . Host we can hear you. And we haveudy law civil law and common law and criminal law. Ok . This complaint against donald trump was a criminal complaint. You cannot settle a criminal complaint by paying off the person. It has to be settled in the courts. This campaign against donald trump was supposed to be settled in court, not through him paying off someone. How he got away with that, i do not know, i would like to know how you can pay off a criminal complaint and not have to go to court. To settle this criminal complaint. I wish somebody would tell me. Host we will get to that story in a little bit but first we want to show you some footage of Montgomery CountyPublic School superintendent jack smith who commented on the recent walkouts and student protest. Supports everyones right to respect the good represent themselves, they represent valid concerns ourrding the security of students outside of our schools and one students are threatened or injured as part of a protest, it raises serious safety issues that require us to rethink the situation. Our goal is to keep our students safe after a double supervision and engaged in the learning process. It is for this reason that i am asking and expecting all andents to remain in school participate in their daily Educational Program as intended. If students do not comply with these expectations, they may be subjected to the regular disciplinary actions that align with what infraction is involved. Hatet to address the related vandalism on school property, these are deeply disturbing incidences, vandalism is illegal, this type of horrible vandalism is illegal, a violation of mcps policy and simply wrong. Host we are taking your calls this morning to hear your view of High School Students walking out of the classroom to protest donald trump at his election as president. Lets turn to maryland, cheryl and that sharon is a teacher sharon is a teacher. Good morning. Caller good morning, cspan, thank you for taking my call. A caller earlier talked about the solidarity of students. These students are learning in their government classes exactly the separation of powers. They are understanding the federalism. They are understanding and learning and they have a lot of questions. As they over the last year or two, have been watching donald trump and Hillary Clinton. They are angry and this is what they say, they say that Hillary Clinton had won the popular vote by over one million votes. A lot of republican saying theyrats did not come out, say the democrats and republicans and independents came out and voted over one million votes for Hillary Clinton. They are listening to donald trump and how he incites bigotry. Thisgo to school with diversity in our schools today. They go to school with hispanics and asians and muslims. They are all friends. They are also telling me because theyre learning that in the state of maryland they can register to vote at the age of 16. They have to wait until 18. That is about 2, 3 years for them. They have a legitimate cause. They see what is going on and will not stand back and do nothing and say nothing. Host are you currently teaching in a classroom . Caller yes, i teach in a classroom. Host how have you address this with your students . Caller i am asking them to take this lesson seriously. I am asking them to look at the separation of powers. I am asking them to take a further look and learn and understand about federalism. Each others opinions and feelings about how they are feeling about living in america today. Fear ofildren are in the type of society that america can become. They do not want to live in a fearful society. Host here are a few comments from twitter. One person writes, it is despicable for students to walk out, but many want an excuse to get out of school and do very little in school anyway. Another person says High School Student too young to vote should be in class being taught how our system works. , manyr person tweets teachers are liberal and should not discuss religion or politics in classes, i never did, was not my place and wrong. Jan is calling, good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Host what is rethought of the student walkouts what is your thoughts of the student walkouts . Caller i am glad we are doing this they are doing this, isut how the constitution being butchered and democratic votes stolen which they did in 2000 and they did it in 2016 and bragged about doing it. Host do you think that schools should give students time . Should they excuse the absence if theyre walking out to protest the election . Caller i think that should be done on their own time and not in school because they are in there to learn and will not pick up much if they are on the streets and we have that outside influence of the devil trying to store up stir up destruction. They need to be in school to learn and after school if they want to do something on the weekend, i am behind them. Host next up is jim from oxford, maine, calling on the line for parents. Think we send the children to school to learn. If the Teachers Want to express their companions in the school room, do they get paid while there children are out there . They are tying up traffic, hurting business, if i had eight children in college and was paying tuition come and found out he went to the street to protest, they would not be in college anymore on my dollar. Washington, another parent, what do you think . Caller i think the students should be in class. And the teachers are promoting this. Promoting their own agenda. On people that do not have idea what theyre doing. I do not understand why it is ok for Illegal Immigrants to be in this country. Why are hispanics out on the streets, because they are illegal . The same thing with the blacks, while they protesting, because they are all muslim . Host robert from washington, we give you. Diane from arkansas, you are a parent. Would you let your child participate . Caller i would not want him to. Haveimes they do not choice, they have done it before they realize. Early80s, old enough to remember in the 1960s when they were protesting at berkeley. I talked to students and most of them did not care. They were just out there having fun at lunchtime. They did not take off school been. They were shaking their fists. They had no idea what was going on. If people would stop and think, what if hillary had one and the republicans were out there protesting now . In called in in two months ago a fellow he was asked what his job was, it was something about the job and he says i am getting 5,000 per week from black lives matter and nobody questioned him about that. I do not think the school paid butare being these others that are protesting definitely are. I think george soros should be looked into, his media at all of this concept because he is. Ehind this, i guarantee you i host a few more headlines. Bee, democratic representative clinched a third term on friday after a bruising challenge from a republican scotch sheriff, who conceded the race after Sacramento County reported nearly 20,000 more votes have been tallied and he increased his lead to 6008 votes, 51. 2 host new york announces a settlement in the Trump University case, the president elect donald trump has agreed to pay 25 million to settle three lawsuits against is now defunct Trump University according to the new York Attorney general. The new York Attorney general called it a stunning reversal by donald trump who has pledged not to settle. His office for swindling innocent americans out of millions of dollars through a scheme known as from university. Trump university. He fought us every step of the way and refuse to settle for modest amounts of compensation for the victims of his phony university. Today, that all changes to the Trump Organization said it was happy to have resettlement. Pleased to announce the complete resolution of all litigation involving Trump University. While we have no doubt it would have prevailed at trial based on the merits of this case, the resolution of these matters allow president elect trump to devote his full attention to the important issues facing our great nation. Meanwhile, the N