As we report on the news happening across the country and around the world, it becomes increasingly difficult to sift out the news stories from those stories meant as parody. This is one such story. The events happened over Thursday and Friday, and involved a Mississippi high school student’s disagreement about the school’s dress code for taking part in Saturday’s graduation ceremony. The student took the school to court over it, and lost. But hang tight for more on that later.
Graduating from high school often involves, as readers know, a serious and very formal ceremony (also known as commencement). It’s meant to be treated as special and distinct from the rest of the school year—whether that’s day to day classes or extracurricular activities like dances, or sporting and scholastic events. After all, the graduation ceremony acts as milestone of sorts between a person’s childhood and […]
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