Embarrassing moment for Utahns and Ridgeline High School. The amount of kids cheering when the Pride flag gets cut down is sickening. “And neither the school nor the school district condones the insensitive and disrespectful removal of the flag, which was done without permission.” “It was put up specifically for that event,” Smith noted. It occurred shortly before an event where the gay-straight alliance clubs for several neighboring schools were set to meet at Ridgeline High, confirmed Cache County School District spokesperson Tim Smith. The incident came on the second day of the school’s Diversity Week. Several students shared it originally and privately on Snapchat, and screen recordings of those accounts have also been posted on Twitter and Facebook. Video of the incident has since circulated widely on social media, identifying the school and including in the background of the footage the school’s iconic green hawk mascot. The colorful fabric wafted down to the ground as a few attending Ridgeline High School in Millville laughed.
As those below him clapped and cheered, a student at a Utah high school ripped down a pride flag representing the LGBTQ community Tuesday that had been hanging on the second floor above the commons.