Mother at Odds with School Board Over Graduation Recognition for Deceased Son ; Kathy Tucker Is Told Her Daughter Can't Accept the Diploma in Her Son's Stead When His Class Graduates.

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Kathy Tucker's grief over the loss of her only son in January has deepened in recent days. Her heartbreak is compounded by the fact that the local school board will not permit her daughter to accept her son's diploma when the Class of 2005 - her son's class - graduates from Lawrence High School next month.

Tucker's son, Joseph W. Violette II, of Clinton was a 17-year- old senior at Lawrence when he was killed in a car crash on a slippery road Jan. 10. He had earned all of the credits required for graduation a month earlier.

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Mother at Odds with School Board Over Graduation Recognition for Deceased Son ; Kathy Tucker Is Told Her Daughter Can't Accept the Diploma in Her Son's Stead When His Class Graduates.

"I met with the principal, the vice principal, the superintendent; I went in front of the school board pleading with them for my daughter Elizabeth to be allowed to get ...

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