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By N dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY
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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,
At John Adams Middle School/Will Rogers Elementary in Santa Monica, anti-mask activists are protesting public safety guidelines requiring masks in school.