A grieving family attended Monday’s Belleville Township High School District 201 school board meeting to ask why their loved one was not honored at graduation in the same way another deceased student was at the other high school.
Keagan Rex, a senior at Belleville East High School, died in December from complications of epilepsy at age 17. He would have graduated Saturday, as would Belleville West senior Dalton Vonderheide, who died in the fall in a car accident.
Both schools held multiple ceremonies that included a moment of silence to honor lost classmates. At what would have been his graduation ceremony, Vonderheide’s name was called and a loved one went on stage to receive his diploma. Rex was not recognized by name, nor was his diploma presented publicly to his family at his ceremony…