“I’m mad,” said Alexis Archuleta, 18. “This is my culture. It’s not just some decoration.” The law was supposed to allow her to wear her decorated mortarboard, but Hillcrest High School forced her to take it off and buy a new, plain one.
, which oversees Hillcrest High in Midvale, confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune that Alexis Archuleta was blocked from wearing her beaded cap, saying the school had a policy for the students not to have any adornments on their hats. A spokesperson there acknowledged that contradicts the new law and said the district will inform all its schools to abide by state law “moving forward.”
Foster said he sat down with the principal of Hillcrest High a week after the ceremony to discuss what happened. The administrator told him, according to Foster, that he was “unaware of that bill” until Foster had emailed a copy to him before their meeting. Foster said the principal also didn’t know why the beaded cap was important, and he plans to teach administrators about that, too.All questions about the incident were referred to the spokesperson for Canyons School District, Jeff Haney.
Her aunt spent nine days beading the mortarboard — in green and white to match her school colors — including late into the night before the ceremony to get it done in time. She stayed up so late, noted her sister Tina, that she missed the graduation. Romero said there aren’t provisions in the law that would admonish a school for not following the law. But she intends to have the Legislature’s legal counsel draft a letter reminding every school district about the measure “so it doesn’t happen again. It shouldn’t have happened now.”
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