[Farmer Dean]

I for one would have some hard questions for the school board members at their next meeting.Like,”Have you people lost all sense of your humanity?”

[bert]

he lacked the credits for graduation
so do lots of others

why do you insist on breaking the rule?

[COBOL2Java]

I for one would have some hard questions for the school board members at their next meeting.Like,”Have you people lost all sense of your humanity?”

That's what makes this incident such a hard choice; if you read the article, the boy made a monumental effort to catch up to his classmates, taking online courses until he was able to return in the fall, then enrolling in an extra early morning class, rejoining the swim team...

It's not like he just sat back and expected to be allowed to graduate. I know the "da rules is rules" crowd will say "too damn bad", but this one doesn't pass the smell test. It almost looks like the School Board is being lazy and using a "zero tolerance" standard.