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There are some seriously uptight administrators out there. Control freak much?

Colston said she was told by an assistant principal, before graduation, that she could not wear the honor cord. She said she took her grandfather's advice and wore it under her gown. That way, "I would know it was there" and "I wouldn't be breaking any rules," she said.

Even though the cord was not visible, Bolden made her take it off and give it to her mother after he learned she was wearing it under her gown. Colston said when she got back to her seat-approximately 10 minutes before the ceremony began-security guards escorted her out of the building.

A student was ejected from her graduation ceremony for wearing a cord UNDER her gown. FFS. Under the gown? What if she was wearing a secret decoder ring she'd merely gotten from a box of cracker jacks or a crucifix on a necklace but hadn't been baptized? Ejected?