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High School Senior Headed for the Army Not Allowed to Wear Army Sash at Graduation

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by KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ8 Jun 2017407

A California high school senior headed for the Army is not allowed to wear an Army sash with his robe and mortarboard at his graduation Friday.

Elias Velazquez made a decision to enlist in the U.S. Army after he graduated from Redlands High School, but his school’s policy states that students cannot decorate their graduation gowns or caps except for California Scholarship Federation chords and sashes, KTTV reported.

“It means something really honorable to me, it’s a whole new life transition to me,” Elias said.

 

Elias and his father are hoping the policy can be changed.

“It’s kind of defeating the purpose of achieving that greatness,” Joe said. “We push our kids to strive and try to be better and do the best they can and then we tell them at their grad ceremony, ‘We need you all to be the same because we don’t want to hurt anyone else’s feelings.'”

His father, Joe, posted about the situation on social media to “open community dialogue” about the situation.

“We’re simply trying to open some community dialogue and get people to understand some rules are okay to change,” Joe said.

The Redlands School District said the reason for the rules is to promote fairness and has nothing to do with not supporting the military.

“We are totally supportive of our men and women in the military. This has nothing to do with a lack of our support,” a spokesperson for the district said.

Although Elias says he is not happy about not being able to wear the sash, he is “committed to following every order they give” him since he is not one to stray from the rules.

The school said that students can wear sashes during other graduation events and before and after the ceremony.

A high school senior in Indiana was also told not to wear her Army sash at graduation May 25 because the school district wanted to focus on “high school accomplishments” at the graduation ceremony.

In 2016, a Maine high school senior was told by his school’s superintendent that he could not display his Army sash at graduation, but could display it at the school’s senior awards ceremony.



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At our graduation, one of the students had an Air Force sash on and he was going to the Air Force. The Armed Forces deserve some respect. Anyone committing to join who is enlisted should be allowed to wear that in my opinion.

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It doesn't say that there is no respect, or that he can't wear it. It means that there is a ceremony in which the school requires what basically amounts to a ceremonial uniform.

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I don't see how they really can physically stop anyone from wearing a sash.

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Tignanello wrote:

It doesn't say that there is no respect, or that he can't wear it. It means that there is a ceremony in which the school requires what basically amounts to a ceremonial uniform.

 Its the Armed Forces.   I think they can choose to allow it.



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I would just wait till the last minute and put it on. I'm a rebel hehe
What are they going to do?



-- Edited by Mary Zombie on Saturday 10th of June 2017 10:53:28 AM

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But are they then allowing yellow arm bands to respect family members lost to cancer? Identification of being a relative of a 9/11 survivor? Are they allowing Presidential symbols to show respect to the office? I am sure that many students have many parts of their lives that deserve as much respect as the armed forces, but this is a ceremony for something else that requires a different type of uniform. There are a number of different graduation events at which he could display his sash. He can wear a different uniform as required for other events.

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I don't think they can control these things. It's micro managing. I think the kids mistake was saying anything about it ahead of time. Easier to ask forgiveness than permission and all

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If we go around finding searching for ways to feel disrespected or insulted we will find many of them.

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We make exceptions for everything else. So yes to the Armed Forces.

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Graduation is serious business, more so in some places.

I'm on the fence about this.

He was in the military, only planning to go.

And the school policy says nothing except what was earned in their school.

I understand wanting to recognize anyone in the military.

But this seems like a pretty clear cut policy.

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He could wear the sash under his gown.

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I would be in the "sneak it on" camp. But in our time, people were spelling things out on the tops of their mortarboards visible by the parents in the stands above.

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chef wrote:

He could wear the sash under his gown.

 That was my thought too, Chef. And he wasn't in the military yet, just a sign up date.  As much as that should be respected I don't think the HS was out of order. Now I would be PO'd if someone who was in JR ROTC during HS was not allowed to wear his/her uniform at HS graduation I would take issue.



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chef wrote:

He could wear the sash under his gown.

 That was my thought too, Chef. And he wasn't in the military yet, just a sign up date.  As much as that should be respected I don't think the HS was out of order. Now I would be PO'd if someone who was in JR ROTC during HS was not allowed to wear his/her uniform at HS graduation I would take issue.

 I agree.



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The rule is in place that no decoration is allowed except the one scholarship. It's not there only for military sashes and it wasn't made to be against this kid. People will do anything to get in the news these days.



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Yeah I'm with the school on this one

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