Kid wears the feather, after asking permission and being denied and then told the consequences for her actions. She wears it anyway. She suffers the consequences. I have no problem with that.
I do have a problem with $1K fine. That is excessive and heavy-handed. Punishment should fit the crime; Don't let the kid walk in the ceremony. But FFS the kid did the work and met the scholastic requirements to graduate, feather or not. You don't deny the kid the diploma over a fucking feather, and you don't exact ANY monetary fine, much less a gross amount like that. This is, perhaps, someone new to the school's administration trying to put their "stamp" on the situation, and flex some authoritative muscle. Hopefully a level headed judge presides over this and throws it out.
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