LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Mason faculty board voted to droop its memorial coverage and evaluate it a later date at a particular assembly Saturday morning.
The assembly was known as to debate the memorial coverage at some point earlier than this yr’s highschool commencement ceremony, and because the district has been criticized by some college students and neighborhood members for a coverage that might have stopped the show of memorials for Lillian Klages and Amanda Blue, two college students who died in a automobile crash in 2023 however would have been part of the graduating class of 2025.
(FILE) Memorial for Mason teenagers killed in crash grows. Names of the kids had been blurred by WLNS on the time of preliminary reporting. Aug. 28, 2023 (WLNS)
Some neighborhood members have expressed the need to honor the 2 ladies by inserting two empty chairs among the many graduates.
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Because the coverage was suspended at Saturday’s particular assembly, any memorial for the 2 ladies can proceed. The board will evaluate the coverage at a later time, however didn’t specify after they would achieve this.
Moreover, the board voted to formally invite the households of Lillian Klages and Amanda Blue to Sunday’s commencement ceremony.
A duplicate of the now-suspended Mason Public Faculties memorial coverage may be learn beneath.
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