SAN FRANCISCO – Everett Middle School Principal Lena Van Haren is giving students a lesson in politics they won’t soon forget.

Students at the school in San Francisco’s Mission District campaigned for weeks before voting Oct. 10 in Everett student elections, but they’re still waiting on the results, KTVU reports.

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Van Haren is withholding the tallies because, she said, they’re not representative of the school’s mostly minority student body, so she’s trying to find a way to skew the results.

Bianca Gutierrez, whose seventh-grade son ran for class representative, told the news site he’s disappointed in Van Haren’s decision.

The diversity issue, “should have been (discussed) prior to elections and prior to the campaigning process,” Gutierrez said, adding that her son is no longer interested in participating.

Student Sebastian Kaplan told KRON 4 he also believes the principal ruined the election.

Principal Lena Van Haren

“I wanted to get more involved and change some things,” he said. “I feel like it is disrespectful to all the people who were running.”

He was also quick to point out the irony of the school’s reasoning behind not releasing the results.

“The organizers are saying things like, ‘we want everyone’s voices to be heard,’ but in truth, the voters’ voices are not being heard,” Kaplan said. “Most kids are in agreement that the results need to come out because kids worked really hard on it.”

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Van Haren told KTVU about 20 percent of Everett’s students are white, and 80 percent are not white, and she’s withholding the results because they didn’t reflect that reality.

“That is concerning to me because as principal I want to make sure all voices are heard from all backgrounds,” she said. “We’re not nullifying the election, we’re not cancelling the election and we’re not saying this didn’t count.”

Instead, she plans to hold a meeting with all student candidates and school administrators Wednesday to discuss a new plan with the goal of increasing the diversity of student leadership. An email Van Haren sent to parents Oct. 14 explains the election results were not released because they do not reflect the school’s “diversity,” and the goal now is to honor the students who won while fixing that apparent problem.

Van Haren told the media one solution to would be to add more positions to balance the racial make-up, but students like Kaplan don’t seem convinced it’s necessary.

“The whole school voted for those people, so it is not like people rigged the game, but in a way, now it is kinda being rigged,” Kaplan said.

Van Haren’s school election meddling, of course, outraged many folks online.

“That school has had a lot of problems, somehow this kind of navel gazing exercise by overpaid administrators seems like a distraction from real issues,” njudah posted to SFist.com. “Not too surprising at SFUSD, but whatever.”

“Wow, so the election isn’t valid because those in power don’t approve of the race of the democratically elected winners? That’s some pretty deplorable racism,” commenter John Doe added. “We really want to be teaching kids that it doesn’t matter what your beliefs and stances are on issues, it only matters that you happen to have the ‘right’ skin color in the name of ‘diversity?’”

“News Flash: 7^th grader has more insight than most adults,” leggomyeggo wrote. “Details at 11.”

Helen Steeply said she wondered “if the field of candidates matched the racial makeup of the school.

“But more than that,” she said, “I wonder why we tolerate this kind of idiocy.”

“I wonder how they’ll tell the middle school students that this is the OK kind of racism, not the bad kind of racism,” Daniel Ketchum added.