Graduation caps, or "mortarboards," are annoying to wear and objectively weird looking. But they're even more annoying when they're constantly falling off your head. If you have to wear one ...
For example, if you take 16 credits of courses which are part of the "14-credit cap", only 14 will count towards graduation, and you will need to take an additional two credits in uncapped courses to ...
In 2024, a Farmington High School student had to switch out her decorated graduation cap for a plain one during her ceremony. Her family said the decorations represented her Native heritage.