A Vermont high school is “making history” by becoming the first school in the nation to fly the divisive Black Lives Matter flag.

Less than 5 percent of students at Montpelier High School are black, but they allege they feel invisible and claim that raising the Black Lives Matter flag in honor of Black History Month shows their community supports them, the Associated Press reports.

District officials ushered students from across the district to the school on Thursday, where they took turns raising the flag and talking about what it means to them.

“People chose their flags because they want to be represented and they want to be seen. We students do not feel like we are represented or seen in our education and we’re here to raise the flag because we want to be seen and we will demand to be represented in our education,” said Joelyn Mensah, member of the student group Racial Justice Alliance that organized the spectacle.

The school’s principal told the media the event is intended as an anti-bias demonstration, rather than the anti-police message BLM has become associated with.

Of course, not everyone thinks that paying homage to a Black Lives Matter flag is a good idea.

Vermont state Rep. Thomas Terenzini told WPTZ the event sets “a bad example.”

“I don’t see myself as being a bigot or prejudiced but I just don’t think that Black Lives Matter is a national organization to look up (to),” he said, according to Fox News.

Others have attacked the decision online, or through complaints to the school district.

Regardless, superintendent Brian Ricca contends feedback has been mostly positive.

“We are proud to do this because it honors the reality that the experience of our … black students is not the same as the experience of our white students,” he said. “And our goal has been to have a substantive conversation about this, not only in our building but in our community.”

Fox News notes that a similar flag that was raised at the University of Vermont in 2016 was later stolen.

The Black Lives Matter flag at Montpelier High School is already inspiring other schools to follow suit.

Students at Burlington High School who attended the recent flag raising in Montpelier are pushing to do the same at their school soon.

“As we drove away from the school, the flag flew high and everyone I was with said that this will be BHS next week. We are hopeful,” senior Eli Pine told the Burlington Free Press. “I thought that if this can be done in Montpelier, it can be done in Burlington.”

The push to follow Montpelier’s lead follows acrimony at Burlington High School over Black Lives Matter rhetoric. Students at the school were recently greeted with competing posters, one from BLM alleging police “kill a disproportionate number of black people” and another from young Republicans that points out “all lives matter” and offers statistics to put the debate in context.

The “all lives matter” poster cites The Washington Post Police Shooting Database and Bureau of Justice statistics that show “twice as many whites are killed by police as blacks” and “an unarmed black man is more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by police.”