8-Year-Old Oklahoma Student Punished For Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirt By Jenelie Anggot
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Jordan Herbert, the student s mother, shared a post about the incident on Facebook
She said her son Ben was first told to hide his shirt s message last month
When he wore it to school again, he received a punishment
A student in an elementary school in Oklahoma has been punished for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt.
The student s mother, Jordan Herbert, said in a Facebook post dated May 3 that her son Ben had received punishment for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt at Charles Evans Elementary.
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An Oklahoma school district is facing backlash after two Black siblings were removed from their classrooms last week for wearing shirts that said Black Lives Matter.
The controversy began in late April when Jordan Herbert s 8-year-old son wore a Black Lives Matter shirt to class at Charles Evans Elementary. Herbert said the principal, Denise Brunk, told him to turn the shirt inside out in a detailed account on social media.
“It made me mad and sad, third-grader Bentlee Stapleton told KXII-TV. “They pulled me out of P.E. and told me to put my shirt inside out and then I started playing.
as Ben Herbert, discusses what happened when he wore a BLM shirt to school in Oklahoma.
Two Oklahoma elementary school students were pulled out of their classrooms last week and forced to spend the remainder of the day in an administrative office after they came to school wearing “Black Lives Matter” T-shirts, the
New York Timesreported on Sunday.
Bentlee Herbert, 8, and
Rodney Herbert, 5, who are brothers, were removed from separate classes in the Ardmore school district because the superintendent said that political attire would “not be allowed at school,” the children’s mother,
Jordan Herbert, told the
Times. Ardmore, Okla., is midway between Oklahoma City and Dallas, Tex.
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6 days ago An Oklahoma school district is facing backlash after two Black siblings were removed from their classrooms last week for wearing shirts that said Black Lives Matter. The controversy began in late April when Jordan Herbert s 8-year-old son wore a Black Lives Matter shirt to class at Charles Evans Elementary. Herbert said the principal, Denise Brunk, told him to turn the shirt inside out in a detailed account on social media. “It made me mad and sad, third-grader Bentlee Stapleton told KXII-TV . “They pulled me out of P.E. and told me to put my shirt inside out and then I started playing.
Boys pulled out of class for BLM shirts in Oklahoma A ‘Black Lives Matter’ T-shirt is not politics,” Jordan Herbert said
Bentlee Herbert, 8, and
Rodney Herbert, 5, were removed from their elementary classrooms and made to wait outside of the front officer for wearing “Black Lives Matter” shirts.
Jordan Herbert, was told by the superintendent of the school district in Ardmore, Oklahoma, that political apparel would “not be allowed at school.”
Bentlee, who is a third-grader at Charles Evans Elementary, went to class in the Black Lives Matter shirt that he picked out himself to wear on April 30, according to his mother. Bentlee was told by principal,