Van High students ask board to allow decorated graduation caps

Oct 21, 2025

Two Van High students asked the Van ISD trustees to let graduates decorate mortarboard caps, saying cap decoration would let quiet and under‑recognized students show identity and future plans. Board members praised the students and said they would consider the request.

The full story

Two students from Van High School asked the Van ISD Board of Trustees during the public comment period to allow graduating seniors to decorate their graduation caps. "We are asking you to be able to decorate a graduation cap," Cassidy Hall told trustees, arguing that cap decoration would let students display individuality and future plans and help "the quiet forgotten kids" feel noticed.

Free newsletter

Sign up to keep reading.

Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.

or
Already have an account? Sign in