Valedictorian at my old high school keeping it real

My senior year they threatened to withhold any students diploma who tried to “honor” a fellow classmate who died in a car crash earlier in the year. The administration had already painted over his signature(on a wall mural some art students got his signature off of something and copied it onto the mural that everyone else also signed), which caused a HUGE blow of with us students.

A few people got together and wanted everyone to wear a shirt under our gown remembering him. Small school of graduation class less than 100 Kids. As the administration held an assembly for the seniors and told them anyone who wears the shirt or mentions him will have their diploma held. One of my friends said in front of everyone “so if we all do it, you’ll hold all of our diplomas?” To which the answer from the principal was yes. So my friend just replied “an entire graduating class has their diploma withheld for honoring their dead friend. That sounds like an amazing newspaper article.”

Some more arguing happened and they backed off.

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