[thefactor]

"...we had a servicemember’s family who opted not to attend their son’s graduation because there was not going to be a sign language interpreter available.”

This makes no sense to me. Why punish your kid for this?

[darrellmaurina]

Since I don’t know who the family is, I can’t speak for them. I think, from what I heard from the School Liaison Officer at her monthly presentation at Fort Leonard Wood, the parents felt that if they could not hear or understand what was going on, there was not much point in attending. However, that’s putting two and two together and perhaps coming up with 22 instead of 4. The key point the SLO wanted to communicate is that they need volunteers to help to avoid the problem in the future.