The cords show our accomplishments and the senior quotes let us leave school with words of wisdom so why take that away.

If anything, the class of 2018 at WHS should definitely be allowed to wear honor chords at graduation. It isn't fair for students to work hard all year/ throughout their high school years to not be able to show that off at graduation! Not fair at all!

Very disheartening to know all of our children's hard work will not be shown at graduation. I personally would love to see these changes be made.

As a student who has worked extremely hard for 4 years. I believe we ( class of 2018 ) deserve to wear our well deserves chords and decorate our caps. Decoration of Caps are a tradition that represent our hardship and originality, taking this away is stripping us of exactly that.

All we ask is to keep the tradition alive and be recognized for our hard-earned achievements.

These things you all are taking away are not just little things these are traditional things that we would like to enjoy our senior year. We worked hard just like the others before us to earn these rewards and now you are taking it away from us we are very upset about it

Hello Class of 2018! This is Dr. Ellis! I am not sure who started this petition but I think that it is super important to come directly to the source for your information as I could easily answer these questions for you! We will continue to have the same cords that we have had in the past. This is not changing. Those cords are as follows: Recognition of Honor Cords: “A” Average – Red and White Cord National Honor Society – White Cord Beta Club – Black and Gold Cord National Art Honor Society – Rainbow Cord German National Honor Society – Red, Black, and Gold Cord Science National Honor Society – Purple, Green, and Gold Cord National History Honor Society – Burgundy Cord French National Honor Society – Red, White, and Blue Cord National Mathematics Honor Society – Light Blue and Gold Cord National English Honor Society – Royal Blue and Gold Cord Spanish National Honor Society – Red and Gold Cord Governor’s Honors Program – Light Blue Cord For your class, the Henry County Board of Education (per the Handbook) will not recognize Honor graduates any more. The school district, will be fully implementing the Latin Honor System with your class and going forward. We will however recognize Cum Laude graduates as we have for the past two years at graduation. As for the Senior quotes, these are not going away either! We will continue to have these as part of your Senior traditions. And as far as the caps and gowns, we do not decorate caps at WHS. Graduation is a formal ceremony and if you were able to attend this past year's graduation, you would see that it is an amazing event and the inconsistency of the caps takes away from amazing pictures and unity of a graduating class. I am looking forward to an amazing school year! You are one of my favorite groups of students that I have had the honor to work with during my career. We already have many fun, exciting and new things planned for you this school year. So if you need an answer to a

We should be allowed to have our chords and a senior quote.. it isn’t fair that we’ve had to wait years of school to not get a quote or chords while others have.