Evan Lopez, a high school student in North Carolina, was denied his diploma for wearing a Mexican flag draped over his shoulders at a graduation ceremony. Lopez said he donned the flag as a tribute to his family for coming to the U.S. ‘to give me a better future,’ per the Courier-Tribune. Asheboro school officials maintain that Lopez’s flag was a distraction that violated the ceremony’s dress code, and have sided with the principal’s decision. A petition asking for Lopez to be given his diploma

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