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A student has claimed that her precocious schoolhouse is breaking nan rule by preventing her from wearing a homemade graduation clothes to her upcoming graduation ceremony.
Jocelynne Zepeda, a elder astatine El Dorado High School successful Las Vegas, Nevada, said that she wanted to deterioration nan custom-made regalia for her May 31 graduation but said nan schoolhouse initially denied her request.
The precocious schoolhouse postgraduate wanted to deterioration a Guatemalan flag, which she said represents her mother’s broadside of nan family, and emblem of Mexico, as a tribute to her begetter who died earlier this year.
'My dada passed this past year. I want to show him, and I want him to beryllium proud,' she said, successful part. 'I’m proud of who I americium because that’s who he is.'
Zepeda's mother Katie Franco told local Fox5 News that she submitted photos connected April 2nd, and followed nan school's instructions to get approval, but ne'er sewage a consequence until weeks later.
On May 6, Franco said she received an email consequence from nan schoolhouse management informing her to 'only deterioration things received by Eldorado during nan ceremony.'
She past contacted nan ACLU of Nevada.
Jocelynne Zepeda, a elder astatine Eldorado High School is pictured pinch her mother
The precocious schoolhouse postgraduate shared that her begetter passed distant earlier this year, and she wanted to deterioration nan emblem of Mexico arsenic portion of her graduation attire
The typical regalia nan young female was barred from wearing Guatemalan and Mexican flags
The non-profit statement had sent a missive successful April to nan Clark County School District.
In nan missive they urged them to repeal their graduation information statement that outlines nan ceremonial dress code.
They besides cited a measure that was passed successful 2023, which allows students to deterioration taste and belief items astatine graduation.
Athar Haseebullah, Executive Director of ACLU of Nevada, told nan news outlet: 'Students are being told that they can’t deterioration stoles representing their nationalist origin, and that is simply a full reproach and usurpation of AB73.'
The Clark County School District issued a connection to DailyMail.com stating that the schoolhouse territory rescinded nan graduation information agreement, arsenic of April 19, 2024.
Athar Haseebullah, Executive Director of ACLU of Nevada, said: 'Students are being told that they can’t deterioration stoles representing their nationalist origin, and that is simply a full reproach and usurpation of AB73'
The precocious schoolhouse graduation ceremonial astatine El Dorado High School is slated for May 31
'Students are permitted to deterioration accepted tribal regalia aliases recognized objects of belief aliases taste value arsenic an adornment to their headdress and gown successful accordance pinch AB73,' nan Clark County SD media relations section said.
'CCSD encourages each students and families to beryllium mindful of nan juncture and respectful of their chap graduates truthful that everyone tin bask nan ceremonial equally.”
