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.
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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.