Students at a middle school near Boston revolted against Pride Month celebrations and destroyed rainbow decorations, according to school officials.
The incident was sparked after the school’s Spectrum club for LGBT students celebrated the beginning of Pride Month by distributing rainbow stickers, plastering Pride signs, and by telling their peers to wear rainbow clothing, the Boston Globe reported.
Children attending Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington were encouraged by their teachers to support the student group, on June 2, in celebration of Pride Month, Boston 25 News reported.
However, some students refused and instead tore down the rainbow decorations, wore patriotic colors, and chanted that “U.S.A.” was their pronoun, in what school administrators called a display of “intolerance and homophobia.”…}