Illinois High School Refuses To Let Female Marine Walk For Graduation Over Dress Code

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The uniform of a Marine trumps a cap and gown. It's on a completely different level. The school should have felt honored.

But a uniform of the Marines doesn't trump the school rules in the school.

Then the school is at fault...

The school is at fault for making rules and expecting pupils to stick by those rules?

Are you serious?

The pupil who couldn't follow simple rules (and expects WHAT in the Marines???) is the one who is at fault.

There are exceptions to every rule. This wasn't a Halloween costume. This is what someone wears when they are willing to give their life for our freedom.

Exceptions exist to accommodate extreme and unusual circumstances. Not to help individuals express or exhibit how proud they are of their affiliation with an organization that has no connection or relevance to the school or the ceremony which focuses on the graduates of that school.

The problem with entitlement is that too many people think they should be given special treatment just because they think they're better or more important than everyone else or their beliefs mean more than other people's beliefs.

A high school graduation ceremony is about honoring the graduates of that school. It is not about any other organization, no matter how respectable or honorable it might be.