Perez Estrada is a financial assistant at UC San Diego and a first-generation college student who graduated from Columbia University and lives in La Jolla.
On June 3, Ever López of Asheboro High School in Asheboro, North Carolina, was denied his diploma for allegedly breaking the graduation dress code by wearing his ancestral Mexican flag over his graduation regalia. This was followed by four police officers escorting him and his family off campus grounds during the graduation ceremony. Shortly afterwards, the high school released an online statement which said that Ever “detracted from the importance and the solemnity of the ceremony” by attaching the Mexican flag to his graduation gown.
A student at Asheboro High School in Asheboro, North Carolina, was denied his diploma on Thursday after wearing a Mexican flag over his graduation gown at the commencement ceremony.