Last Friday, a Maine high school raised a rainbow flag, becoming the first school in the state to do so. The flag came down yesterday as one student didn’t want to attract media attention to the school.
The Rainbow Flag went up in front of Kennebunk High School after work by the school’s GSTA (Gay-Straight-Trans Alliance, presumably) put it up. The school’s Feminist Club caught the event on video and posted it to Twitter.
It’s true, they did:
But.
The flag attracted limited local media coverage, including the short article from a radio station linked above.
KMTW, the local ABC affiliate, is now reporting that the flag was removed because a transgender student did not want to attract media attention. No other details about the removal are available.
That seems extremely sad, and counterproductive. But! There’s another but – another peripateia. In checking the Feminist Club’s Twitter I found up to date news:
Discussion on the take down of the pride flag occurred today. Issue is being resolved and flag will be flying in the future. DM for info.
— Kennebunk GSTA (@kbk_glsta) March 8, 2017
They talked, and the issue is resolved. Awesome! That’s how these things should go.
Comments
8 responses to “Discussion occurred”
How many flags does a school need? This is all so alien, I don’t remember any of my schools bothering with even a single flag.
Hm. I’m not bothered by schools with flags – I think it’s a welcoming gesture, and that seems like a good thing for schools to have.
Plus in the US the alternative is probably just the one US flag, which seems a good deal too narrow.
I can understand not wanting to attract attention. You might end up with some mentally unstable, armed (thanks Trump!) homophobic terrorist deciding to shoot up a school flying this flag.
Of course, if everyone in the school is packing heat, we’re golden. Safety through superior firepower.
Kennebunkport? The epicenter of Bushdom?
Well, they don’t need any, but in the U.S. it’s common to fly two: The U.S. flag and the state flag.
To iknklast @ #4:
Kennebunk is NOT Kennebunkport! Haaaa-rumph!
signed – yr hmbl svnt who grew up in northern NE and was TAUGHT THE DIFFERENCE
Clamboy – I missed that. Thanks for the heads up. Guess it’s time for me to quit working 15 hour days and start playing and sleeping…
I’m off now to play or sleep or play at sleeping, whichever one works best.
I wish I could understand why people attach such significance to floaty bits of cloth. It’s beyond me.