Colorado student told she can’t wear sash with Mexican flag at graduation

“My end goal is to not have any other student go through what I’ve gone through.”

Naomi X. Peña Villasano felt proud as she admired the graduation stole hanging around her neck, with one half designed to look like the American flag, the other like the Mexican flag.

Peña Villasano said school administrators told her the Mexican flag could be seen as offensive. The student said the school is denying her First Amendment rights and barring her cultural representation. In an email Baugh sent to Peña Villasano that the teen provided to The Denver Post, Baugh explained that she is Ukrainian, but that if she wanted to wear something with a Ukrainian flag on it to graduation, that wouldn’t be allowed.

Peña Villasano contends the school has no written policies prohibiting the display of cultural flags or symbols.

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