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,
A mother in Oklahoma said two of her young sons, ages 8 and 5 years old, were removed from classrooms at their respective schools in Ardmore last week for wearing shirts that read Black Lives Matter.
Jordan Herbert told The New York Times that her sons, who attend different schools in the same district, were taken out of their classes last Tuesday after officials said the shirts were political and they couldn t wear them to school.
Herbert said her two kids had to sit in the schools offices for the rest of the day.
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She added that her 8-year-old son, Bentlee, had earlier worn a Black Lives Matter shirt to school on April 30.
An 8-year-old Black elementary student in Oklahoma was punished for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to school, his mother says.
Ben Stapleton wore the BLM shirt last week at Charles Evans Elementary School in Ardmore and was instructed by the principal to turn the shirt inside out during P.E. class, according to local outlet KXII. But when Stapleton wore the shirt again, the child was allegedly taken out of class and forced to sit in the principal’s office for hours in what his mother described as modern-day segregation.
“They pulled me out of P.E. and told me to put my shirt inside out and then I started playing,” the child said.