NEW YORK – Teachers sought confrontation with police officers by staging a protest right outside the precinct.

Teachers with the KIPP Public Charter School Network joined dozens of others to protest their Big Labor brethren outside a precinct in Harlem during a night dubbed “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot National Teachers Protest,” the Huffington Post reports.

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“We are just average teachers empowered to do something and make change,” according to the Facebook page that was designed to organize protests against the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and New York.

“We need to target our message to the police officers that directly engage with our students day to day.”

But teachers aren’t just bringing the issues into social studies class. They’re finding creative ways to weave their perspective into other subjects, as well.

“In science class we talk about the psychology of racism, we talk about the psychology of discrimination, we talk about whether race us even anything or whether it’s a social construct,” says A.J. Hudson, an 8th grade biology teacher at KIPP Amp Middle School in Brooklyn.

“We’re all teachers and we teach in the neighborhoods that are most at risk of discriminatory police practices, and we’re honestly all terrified every day for our students,” Hudson tells the Huffington Post.

“I mean, teaching 8th graders and high schoolers, we’re terrified that they’re going to face the threats that other young black men have faced in our country.”

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KIPP Amp Middle School administrators joined, too.

“Kids are very acutely aware of everything that’s happening and if we don’t take the time and pause as educators and really think about … how these things are so pervasive, what’s the point of doing what we’re doing,” vice principal Jonathan McIntosh says.

“They don’t feel like their voice is heard. When the grand jury decisions [were] handed out, they’re all talking and they’re like, ‘What exactly is going on here? What does that mean for someone who looks like me?’”

A similar protest took place outside a Princeton, New Jersey precinct.

Police reportedly met protesters with coffee and donuts, according to photos posted by the protesters.

The Facebook page lists future events, including “Shut the NYPD Down” on December 19.