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‘I Was Stunned’: Minnesota Girl Speaks out Against BLM Poster in Classroom

‘I Was Stunned’: Minnesota Girl Speaks out Against BLM Poster in Classroom
Protesters rally outside the Brooklyn Center police station in Minnesota on April 13, 2021. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
Reporter
6/22/2021|Updated: 6/22/2021

A 9-year-old girl from Minnesota has gone viral online after confronting her local school board, which she said had contradicted its own “no politics” policy by displaying a Black Lives Matter (BLM) poster in a classroom.

The girl, who only identified herself as “Novalee,” is a student at an elementary school in Lakeview Area Schools, which serves the Dakota and Scott Counties in the southern suburbs of Minneapolis. She gained popularity on social media because of a video in which she called on the school district to remove the BLM posters.

Bill Pan
Bill Pan
Reporter
Bill Pan is an Epoch Times reporter covering education issues and New York news.
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