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Reading the article, it appears he was a successful student and respected. If they really DID truly mean you can't wear a cape, there was more than ample time to tap him on the shoulder and tell him they were escorting him out of the line if he wears the cape across the stage.
In the future, if they want to enforce a dress code, they probably need to make it clear what the punishment will be - you won't receive a diploma. And if you're not dressed appropriately, you won't be able to cross the stage.
I personally think what they should do, in this case, is withhold his diploma until he completes community service hours for the school district. Give an inch, graduates will take a mile and each one thinks they are more and more clever.
I agree.
They should have stopped him before he got to the stage but keeping him from his diploma he earned is too much. A little community service to teach him actions have consequences.
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Reading the article, it appears he was a successful student and respected. If they really DID truly mean you can't wear a cape, there was more than ample time to tap him on the shoulder and tell him they were escorting him out of the line if he wears the cape across the stage.
In the future, if they want to enforce a dress code, they probably need to make it clear what the punishment will be - you won't receive a diploma. And if you're not dressed appropriately, you won't be able to cross the stage.
I personally think what they should do, in this case, is withhold his diploma until he completes community service hours for the school district. Give an inch, graduates will take a mile and each one thinks they are more and more clever.
No, no, and hell no!
He has already completed the graduation requirements and you’ve already “punished” him for the act by not giving the diploma him at the ceremony. He is entitled to his diploma. Now the school is rightfully drawing the ire of the public since they are being petty and not giving the kid what he earned and satisfied the requirements for.
1. They're not going to withold the diploma, it's an idle threat
2. Teen is probably trying for a fat go-fund-me for the trauma of his civil rights and um....racism. lol.
According the another article I linked in here about this incident this student was born here so why was he displaying the Mexican flag? He was an American not a Mexican according to a PC policy anyway. IMO, since that article said his parents came here for a better life which usually means they came here illegally I think he was making a statement about his parents who are Mexicans and the fact that he was probably an anchor baby.
All the stupid varying forms of protest (and protesting what or calling attention to what, most of the idiots don't even have a clue, they just want attention) are so commonplace anymore. Everything has to be racist and Biden (like his bud Obama) is going to see that racism is alive and stroked daily to remain a prominent part of our everyday lives. The media will never ceased jumping on incidents such as this one and blowing it out of proportion to stroke those racist flames of Biden & Co.
There are rules or chaos - take your pick. The boy knowingly defied the rules. OK, no big deal. School officials should have pulled him aside and said, hey you want to cross that stage and receive your diploma, you will remove that flag you have draped across you and you will keep it off as long as you have your cap and gown on. You don't want to comply with our rules, fine, here's the door. You can call us and we'll make arrangements for a time for you to come to the school office to pick up your diploma.
The American public needs to say enough, we are sick of this in your face everyday nonsense constantly trying to get something started. The out of control media needs to be taken down and the best way I see is to completely ignore their silly molehill to mountain attempts to appease their liberal Gods in keeping this country in constant discord and strife.
He has already completed the graduation requirements and you’ve already “punished” him for the act by not giving the diploma him at the ceremony. He is entitled to his diploma. Now the school is rightfully drawing the ire of the public since they are being petty and not giving the kid what he earned and satisfied the requirements for.
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As of this morning, he's still not been given his diploma. The video here shows him receiving the same thing everyone else received - which is likely a blank certificate with instructions on how to get your diploma.
My kids didn't get their diplomas at graduation - it's too hard to hand them to the right person since there will be no-shows at the ceremony and that would mess up the order of the diplomas to be handed out as they cross the stage.
The person handing out the paper initially balks, but then gives whatever it is to him. The school is still meeting with him/his family and they'll likely come to some agreement.
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As of this morning, he's still not been given his diploma.
The school had announced that he could have picked it up last Friday. He is the reason he doesn't have it, he could have picked it up but he hasn't or won't.
Seems he's milking the situation, maybe because of the three gofundme accounts aimed at raising money for him over this and his own gofundme for his "dream car".
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The video here shows him receiving the same thing everyone else received - which is likely a blank certificate with instructions on how to get your diploma.
My kids didn't get their diplomas at graduation - it's too hard to hand them to the right person since there will be no-shows at the ceremony and that would mess up the order of the diplomas to be handed out as they cross the stage.
The person handing out the paper initially balks, but then gives whatever it is to him. The school is still meeting with him/his family and they'll likely come to some agreement.
He received the holder for the diploma. That person who gave it to him obviously told him to take the flag off, which he began to do but then changed his mind and walked off...I noticed your video cut that part.
the parents and this kid could have saved all these reactions by not wearing a Mexican flag to an American school ceremony on American soil.
I don't disagree. However, the school district is overreacting.
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If you ignore all the fluff and attempted heart string pulling it's seems pretty obvious that his parents came here illegally long ago and that the graduate was an anchor baby as the mother claims he was born here.
More ridiculous assumptions. There is nothing in your link that indicates his parents entered the country illegally. That's just wishful thinking to fuel another anti-immigration rant.
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