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Principal Orders Removal Of BLM Door At Cobb County School
The door display at Kennesaw Mountain High School read, "Black Lives Matter" and also included photos of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
KENNESAW, GA — Students at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Cobb County, Georgia, are surprised and confused after the principal of the high school said a door display showing support for the Black Lives Matter movement must be taken down.
The display, which students created to commemorate Black History Month in February, has the phrases "Black Lives Matter" and "Say Their Names" in construction paper cut-out letters, according to a report by Fox 5 Atlanta.
Portraits of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are also part of the display, as well as the names of dozens of others who have died at the hands of police.
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Last week, Principal Nathan Stark said they had to take the door display down, Fox reported.
Eleventh grader Christopher Bryant-Beasley, who is Black, told the news station he was surprised by the demand.
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"We were just all confused, like why should we take it down, what’s the main reason you want us to take it down?" Bryant-Beasley told Fox 5.
In a statement sent to Fox 5, the Cobb County School District appeared to support Stark's decision.
The door display at Kennesaw Mountain High School is just the latest example of how the Black Lives matter movement has sparked tension and controversy in U.S. schools.
In New Jersey, the father of a student at Middletown High School North was angered by a sign hanging in his child's classroom and asked the district to take it down.
The sign, which appeared to be lettering etched or glued to the front of the teacher's desk, read, "In this class, we believe: Black Lives Matter. Women's rights are human rights. No human is illegal. Science is real. Love is love. Kindness is everything."
In Oak Lawn, Illinois, a popular teacher who hung a Black Lives Matter flag in her classroom and then tweeted a picture stating, "my background for the Zoom sessions," received a torrent of vitriolic comments on social media.
When the first day of remote learning started Monday in CHSD 218 high schools, the BLM flag was gone and the background in Rahaf Othman's Zoom history and government classes was a neutral cream color.
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