Students upset after Pride flag taken from pole, burned at Saskatchewan school

Story continues below advertisementGrade 9 student Nikita Nahbexie, the head board member of the school’s gay-straight alliance club, says students are devastated.“It’s disgusting, because we’re trying to get kids to feel safe and that they’re accepted at this school,” she said Wednesday.She and fellow GSA board member Jessica Baumgartner said they don’t know who is responsible.

“We are not aware of who saw it last. We just know that it was up, and when we got to school this morning it was on the ground,” Nahbexie said.She said a Grade 7 student who’s out as gay was quite upset. “She was in tears and completely hurt, because she knows kids who are in the closet, and it’s painful to her to see her flag being burned,” Nahbexie said. “That’s something she took pride in.”Nahbexie said the flag-burning works against the intent of the school’s GSA to “raise awareness, have everyone come in to support each other and let people know they’re safe.”

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