The Daily Ardmoreite
The Ardmore City Schools Board of Education last week quietly updated the elementary dress code to prohibit “social or political content.” The district’s top official said the move was not in response to a mother’s protest that briefly put the school’s decision in a national spotlight after two of her children were removed from classes for wearing Black Lives Matter shirts.
“Nothing was discussed at all. The only thing I remember was we changed some of the facilities that the board was willing to lease to outside groups,” said Superintendent Kim Holland on May 20. He spoke by phone two days after a school board meeting that approved student handbooks for elementary, middle and high school students for the next academic year.