Despite tantrum, senior can graduate from Choffin Friday

YOUNGSTOWN

A Choffin Career and Technical School student who was arrested last week after he threw a tantrum because he thought a suspension would keep him from participating in graduation will be allowed to graduate.

Yvonne Mathis, a spokeswoman for the city school district, said Thursday that Deaunt’e Blackmon-Tensley, 19, will be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies Friday at Stambaugh Auditorium and walk across the stage to receive his diploma.

Mathis said Blackmon-Tensley was told he was being suspended Friday because of a senior prank involving a water balloon, and thought he would miss graduation because he would receive a five-day suspension, which would be on the day of graduation, thus making him ineligible.

However, the suspension is only three days and would end before graduation, which means he will be allowed to graduate, Mathis said.

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