Students at more than a dozen suburban Chicago high schools and Northwestern University have launched online petitions demanding that their canceled graduation ceremonies be rescheduled once COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings are lifted.
Barrington High School senior Niyanthi Puliyala started an online petition asking officials to consider rescheduling either the graduation ceremony or prom for a later date.
“Fighting the coronavirus should be everyone’s top priority and matters like these seem inconsequential at a time like this, but this is an idea I am proposing. … Postpone the traditional graduation ceremony instead of having a virtual ceremony,” she said in her online petition.
Puliyala told the Tribune that she saw other schools tenatively rescheduling later ceremonies and “it seems like we’re the one high school that just immediately jumped to a virtual graduation only, which was shocking.”
The petition asks officials to consider July 31 as a possible commencement date, since the high school has tentatively set prom for Aug. 1.
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