FLORENCE, SC (WBTW) – Students from different high schools spoke to the Florence School District One board on Thursday.
Senior at Wilson High School, Jade Mack, was just one of the several students who voiced their concerns to the school board about the limited number of graduation tickets.
“The issue is that students are only given ten tickets this year,” she said. “It’s a new policy that was just implemented this year, and students were told very late about it.”
Mack said the ticketing of graduation has affected many students at her high school, and across the district.
“I actually have a very small immediate family, and the 10 tickets did satisfy that,” Mack said. “But there’s more than just family members that influence my life like church members and extended family.”
One of the issues that was brought up when News13 spoke with the Florence Center’s General Manager last year, was traffic.
Mack said she thinks there are solutions to the traffic issue.
“Shuttling students from their schools to the Florence Center and back would help with traffic, and the crowding after that happens when people try to take pictures after the graduation,” she said.
The 18-year-old said students are willing to compromise with the ticketed graduation by giving tickets to other students if they don’t need them.
“We have yet to receive tickets,” she told the board. “I feel like if it’s going to be a ticketed event that we need to have those tickets in hand.”
The school board commended the students on voicing their concerns, and said it will look into them.
The Florence School District One board will meet again on May 24.
