it's our senior year and it's time to make a change. Let the Gibbs High School Class of 2017 decorate their graduation caps. We pay for them. We keep them. Let us express ourselves and our success on one of the only things we keep from high school! Every other school decorates theirs. Now it's our turn.
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September 20, 2016
I honestly cannot believe how many people are actually behind this idea now because it feels like just yesterday I was sitting in the library thinking nobody would care about some cardboard squares. It is wild to see everyone getting so fired up about decorating our caps since we really should be able to express ourselves on the stuff we own. I am pretty sure the administration is going to have to listen to us eventually if we just keep this energy going.
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I am not only signing this petition because I think we deserve nothing more than the right to decorate a cap that our parents pay for at a graduation that does not portain to the school building, but it is downright silly for us to be told we may not graduate if we decorate our caps. The school system wants us to act mature and grow up because we are going out into the "grown up" world. Well then, how about starting by letting us make an adult decision when it comes to whether or not we want to decorate our caps for graduation; it doesn't distract or demean those graduating from colleges, so why would it to us graduating high school?
These kids worked hard to earn the cap and gown they wear to graduation. It's a right of passage to be able to express themselves by decorating their caps. What/who does it hurt to let them do it? They earned the cap, they pay for the cap, they should be able to decorate the cap.
I graduated from GHS in 2014 and I was allowed to decorate my cap!! Not only did my parents pay for my cap and gown but I worked hard to walk across that stage! The decoration of your hat is the one last time that you get to express yourself before you have to leave the life you have known for 13 years! I would completely understand if there were students that had decorated theirs in a vulgar way but there has not been! Let the class of 2017 express their selves one last time...something that school has beat into us to since day one!
Graduation is what we have worked for, for the past 13 years of our lives. Our lives since we were 5 years old, have prepared us for this! After we walk across that stage, we are faced with reality; whether it's moving out, or going straight into the work force, we are pushed out of the nest. Graduation is our one last celebration before we have to go out and be....adults. We worked for them, we waited for them, and we even payed for them. Let us have one final, warm memory of our home for 4 years.
My daughter graduates this year and should be allowed to decorate her cap without the school making threats to the students sating they can't. The school don't pay for the caps anyway. Let them celebrate.
Oh, let the kids decorate their caps! What's the big deal as long as it's not inappropriate?!
As much hard work that we have put it during these 13 years it always been a accomplishment to get to decorate our caps when I see other schools I love to look at things that represent that perso.. I don't know why we are so bad that we can't decorate our caps I feel after 13 YEARS we should have one little treat.......
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it's our senior year and it's time to make a change. Let the Gibbs High School Class of 2017 decorate their graduation caps. We pay for them. We keep them. Let us express ourselves and our success on one of the only things we keep from high school! Every other school decorates theirs. Now it's our turn.
Updates
September 20, 2016
I honestly cannot believe how many people are actually behind this idea now because it feels like just yesterday I was sitting in the library thinking nobody would care about some cardboard squares. It is wild to see everyone getting so fired up about decorating our caps since we really should be able to express ourselves on the stuff we own. I am pretty sure the administration is going to have to listen to us eventually if we just keep this energy going.
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Gibbs kids can do anything except be ourselves. We have to walk like an adult and talk like an adult but the second we want to actually use our freedom of expression we are children. And if we decorate our cap we can't graduate? Okay. It's my hard-earned money. I'm not gonna spend it on a piece of cardboard covered in fabric if I can't make it my own. Let us do it!
I am not only signing this petition because I think we deserve nothing more than the right to decorate a cap that our parents pay for at a graduation that does not portain to the school building, but it is downright silly for us to be told we may not graduate if we decorate our caps. The school system wants us to act mature and grow up because we are going out into the "grown up" world. Well then, how about starting by letting us make an adult decision when it comes to whether or not we want to decorate our caps for graduation; it doesn't distract or demean those graduating from colleges, so why would it to us graduating high school?
These kids worked hard to earn the cap and gown they wear to graduation. It's a right of passage to be able to express themselves by decorating their caps. What/who does it hurt to let them do it? They earned the cap, they pay for the cap, they should be able to decorate the cap.
I graduated from GHS in 2014 and I was allowed to decorate my cap!! Not only did my parents pay for my cap and gown but I worked hard to walk across that stage! The decoration of your hat is the one last time that you get to express yourself before you have to leave the life you have known for 13 years! I would completely understand if there were students that had decorated theirs in a vulgar way but there has not been! Let the class of 2017 express their selves one last time...something that school has beat into us to since day one!
Graduation is what we have worked for, for the past 13 years of our lives. Our lives since we were 5 years old, have prepared us for this! After we walk across that stage, we are faced with reality; whether it's moving out, or going straight into the work force, we are pushed out of the nest. Graduation is our one last celebration before we have to go out and be....adults. We worked for them, we waited for them, and we even payed for them. Let us have one final, warm memory of our home for 4 years.
My daughter graduates this year and should be allowed to decorate her cap without the school making threats to the students sating they can't. The school don't pay for the caps anyway. Let them celebrate.
Oh, let the kids decorate their caps! What's the big deal as long as it's not inappropriate?!
As much hard work that we have put it during these 13 years it always been a accomplishment to get to decorate our caps when I see other schools I love to look at things that represent that perso.. I don't know why we are so bad that we can't decorate our caps I feel after 13 YEARS we should have one little treat.......
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Gibbs kids can do anything except be ourselves. We have to walk like an adult and talk like an adult but the second we want to actually use our freedom of expression we are children. And if we decorate our cap we can't graduate? Okay. It's my hard-earned money. I'm not gonna spend it on a piece of cardboard covered in fabric if I can't make it my own. Let us do it!