LEXINGTON, Ky. – A picture of a Black Lives Matter banner hanging in Lexington’s Bryan Station High School is sparking backlash on social media, and the situation has district and school officials professing their support for the cause.

The banner, erected in a public area by a student-run Black Lives Matter club, drew scorn from some online, where some questioned whether it’s appropriate for the school to highlight the racially motivated movement, LEX18 reports.

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“We take down the Ten Commandments and anything about God but then promote segregation? Don’t all lives matter?” one critic wrote.

“You can tell somebody to hate and they’ll hate before they like … even if they don’t know anything about it because someone older told them it was the right thing to do,” resident Sam Simpson told the news site.

Students who formed Bryan Station’s Black Lives Matter club, as well as the principal and district superintendent, defended the sign and what they believe it represents.

“Do they matter more than anyone else’s lives? No, absolutely not. That’s ridiculous. That’s not what equality is all about,” club founder Rosalyn Huff told the news site. “But if there’s not equality then we need to talk about those groups that are being oppressed so that all lives can matter.”

Huff said the student group promotes peace and rejects the violence that’s been attributed to the movement recently.

“We haven’t had any violent incidents since we started the club,” she said. “It’s been completely positive.”

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“These students are not saying that only certain lives matter, rather they are helping to educate and shed light on some of the social injustices that exist in the America we live in today,” Bryan Station principal James McMillin said.

McMillin and superintendent Manny Caulk told LEX18 they were initially apprehensive about a Black Lives Matter student club, but the students took initiative and presented a well-researched, compelling proposal.

“I too had bought into the misinformation about the Black Lives Matter movement. Instead of interpreting the slogan as ‘only black lives matter,’ we need to see it as ‘black lives matter too.’ Just as I challenged the students to bring me a detailed proposal with their vision and mission for the club, they challenged me to do more than listen to a Facebook feed,” McMillin said.

Some school officials, however, do seem to be getting their ideas about Black Lives Matter from a Facebook feed. Two girls in Reno, Nevada decided to launch a Black Lives Matter protest through the social media site that’s set for Friday evening, and that’s where it caught the eye of school board president Angie Taylor, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports.

The girls – 16-year-olds Carissa Garcia and Brooke Simby – told the news site they learned about police shootings and Black Lives Matter on Facebook, and launched their protest, on Facebook, to speak out about police shootings of black criminals.

“I was going on my Facebook feed and I saw some videos that my friends were sharing,” Garcia said. “There were a bunch of them all over the place.”

The girls launched a Facebook event to “march around the city and protest” on behalf of Black Lives Matter, though neither girl is affiliated with the movement. Within a day more than 100 people signed up to attend the protest, and hundreds more followed.

Support poured in from the state’s Progressive Leadership Alliance, and others. NAACP leaders and local police said they plan to talk to the girls about the event, as well.

The school board president even professed her support for the cause.

“Washoe County School Board President Angie Taylor also passed a message along to Garcia and Simby saying if they needed help, she would be happy to oblige,” the Gazette-Journal reports.