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.”
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.
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,
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