Yvonne Bell-Alanis was 16 when she succumbed to leukemia last year. Her friends wanted to honor her memory at graduation.
The graduating seniors at a Eugene, Ore., high school were heartbroken to learn that school administrators had denied their request to honor a classmate who died of cancer. The students had allegedly requested to carry the girl’s ashes during their graduation ceremony on Friday.
But the day before graduation, school officials changed their tune, according to a Facebook post from Tiffany. The grieving mom said her daughter’s classmates were told they would only be allowed to carry photos of Yvonne in their pockets. No public remembrance of the student would be allowed, Yvonne’s loved ones apparently learned.
He told KCBY the question became, “What can we do that would meaningful to those who loved and miss Yvonne, while not unintentionally impact any of the thousands who are attending there, who may have had a tragic loss recently of their own?” The day after the decision was announced by Willamette’s vice principal, Tiffany said she tried once more to negotiate a deal that she and Yvonne’s peers would be more comfortable with — to no avail.
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