“We’ve really had the idea of freedom of speech drilled into our heads in school since a young age, so this was really an opportunity to apply these things to the real world,” he said.

“It was important to remind Trump and his supporters that while different political ideologies are completely acceptable, hateful and divisive rhetoric is not.”

Miracle said Trump is “openly corrosive to civic life and American values.”

Kieran King-Sellars, a Booker T. sophomore, was one of two students who came up with the idea to protest.

King-Sellars said he was upset when he heard Trump was coming to town because he considers Trump a racist.

“Our only course of action was to protest,” said King-Sellars, whose sister, an activist in Virginia, was also kicked out of a Trump rally for protesting.

King-Sellars’ parents told him he was not allowed to miss school and go protest at the rally, but he decided to do it anyway.

“I didn’t feel like two weeks of being grounded and losing my car was worth not going with my group of supporters to go against someone or something that I believed in,” he said.