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Two Brothers Get In-School Suspension For Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirts to School Image via John Holmes/Facebook 80 Two Black brothers from Oklahoma were removed from their elementary school classroom and isolated from students because they wore Black Lives Matter shirts. Ben Stapleton, 8, and his 5-year-old brother spent their entire day at school in the principal’s office at an Ardmore elementary school, Complex News reported. A week before this incident, Jordan Herbert, their mother, was suspicious about why her elder son’s BLM shirt was inside out. She was told the physical educat...
An Oklahoma mom said her 8-year-old son was punished for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to school. Ben Stapleton, a third grader at Charles Evans Elementary School in Ardmore, was told by the principal during gym class to turn his Black Lives Matter shirt inside-out on April 30. “It made me mad and sad,” he told KXII. “They pulled me out of P.E. and told me to put my shirt inside out and then I started playing.” Ben’s mother, Jordan Herbert, said she contacted the school on Monday and was told by the superintendent that her son would not have been punished if he’d refused to...