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Year in Review: Graduation Flap Causes Uproar

A last-minute decision to allow students who hadn't completed all of their requirements to participate in graduation caused an uproar in the community.

As part of South San Francisco Patch's year-end coverage, we're looking back at some of the biggest stories that unfolded over the course of 2011.

The day before South City's high schools held their 2011 graduations, Acting Superintendent Adolfo Melara .

The students walked, but his decision that was largely critical of overturning a tradition to only allow students who have completed their requirements to walk.

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After several , discontent with school district leadership appeared to be at an all-time high, and Board President Maurice Goodman acknowledged, "we drop[ped] the ball."

The board's popular decision to hire Superintendent Alejandro Hogan at the end of June seemed to quell much of the bad feeling, and a graduation policy committee will work on requirements for 2012.

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Check out the headines below to see how the controversy over graduation requirements unfolded in South San Francisco in 2011.


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