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.
Oklahoman
McALESTER Convicted murderer Nicholas Alexander Davis was among death row inmates moved off of the most restrictive unit in prison after the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma threatened to sue.
That transfer turned out to be fatal.
In his new unit at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Davis was exposed to the novel coronavirus during an outbreak in March and became ill.
He died April 7 at a hospital in Lindsay from COVID-19 complications, a medical examiner concluded in a report. He was 46.
He was awaiting execution for a fatal shooting inside an Oklahoma City apartment in 2004.
A jury in 2007 chose death as his punishment for the murder. The U.S. Supreme Court in October rejected his final appeal.
Jordan Herbert, last Tuesday (May 4) wearing matching Black Lives Matter tees.
Herbert told the newspaper her sons,
Bentlee, 8, and
Rodney Herbert, 5, were taken out of their classrooms because the shirts violated a political expression dress code rule the schools have. Herbert claims, however, that she had previously spoken to
Kim Holland, superintendent of the Ardmore School District, regarding the shirts when the principal of Bentlee’s school had told her to speak to him regarding the school’s dress code.
“He told me when the George Floyd case blew up that politics will not be allowed at school,” Herbert said on Friday, referring to Holland. “I told him, once again, a ‘Black Lives Matter’ T-shirt is not politics.”