A high school on Prince Edward Island is removing pictures of its late students from a memorial wall – a decision that has upset one mother whose daughter attended the school.
Valerie Wadman’s daughter Miranda graduated from Kensington Intermediate Senior High School in 1997 and went on to study at the University of Prince Edward Island.
She died in a car accident on March 1, 1998, at the age of 18.
“She was very special to a lot of people. We had professors come to the wake and tell us that when she walked into a room, she lit it up. She was only there from September to March,” Wadman told CTV Atlantic.
When she got the email from the school explaining their decision, she thought it was “cold.”
“Why? I couldn’t understand the meaning of it, and I read where it says that it’s upsetting, it could upset children. I thought, I don’t understand that. It’s been there for so long and we kind of rely on going …