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Milford board declines empty‑chair memorial at graduation, offers alternatives and draws community response
Summary
Community members asked the Milford board to allow a visible memorial for a student who died by suicide; the board declined, citing expert guidance about contagion risk, and offered alternatives including reading the student’s name at graduation and providing a private diploma to the family.
Two community speakers asked the Milford Exempted Village School District Board of Education on April 17 to authorize a visible memorial for a student who died by suicide and to adopt a written policy to allow similar memorials in the future. The board responded that it will not place an empty chair at graduation; instead it described a series of alternative, district‑wide steps to honor students who died while enrolled.
Julie Mastin, who identified herself as the mother of Kaylee Mastin, who died by suicide in 2023, asked the board to “create a policy that allows any student to be publicly remembered at graduation if their classmates…
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