Kids expelled for having $ex!!

New math?

We had some kids get expelled for having sex.  But it was their second chance.  And we were at a boarding school so boys weren't even supposed to be in the girl's dorms.

I wasn't fortunate enough to have that "problem" back when I was in high school

Maybe 8 kids entered and 10 kids left....

Edited by eberulf 2008-05-16 4:29 PM

4 boys and 5 girls? I like those odds?.

They should never even had the opportunity to do it. But what concerns me is they are expelled and now will miss out on their "sex" education to learn about what can happen when they do the deed.

I agree with the expulsion. Not doing so would give the rest of the kids in the school the message that breaking rules have no repercussion.

They do until they have to deal with the wrath of their parents because getting kids into different schools is tough, at least in most of the cases that I've heard of. My wife is a HS teacher and has witnessed a couple different kids get expelled, typically after "prank" bomb threats and just moronic stuff of that nature and most of the time the parents have to either pay to send them to another school district or pay to send them to a private school, and in some of the cases (private) the schools have a say in not accepting the kid if they so desire. If a kid is getting expelled chances are he/she is already pretty deep into the "I don't care about anything" stage so it's tough to reach them and convince them that they're making everyone's lives miserable.

2008-5-16.

Didn't even notice that.

I am no expert on public education in this state, but I can share about Education Law and how it is done in CA.


1 - Full expulsion (in public schools) is really only defensible in cases of Illegal/dangerous behavior and impact on educational mission/instructional process. Generally, the latter requires some sort of failure to correct with progressive discipline, and it is almost always the justification with a controversial expulsion. (minus the "zero tolerance" for bringing a butter knife BS). In this case, individual details of the school's investigation of the incident and each child's discipline history should be taken into account.

2 - In CA, expulsion does not mean you don't go to school. It means you cannot go to the regular school and are required to go to an alternative program. These really vary in quality, and fun things like extra-curriculars, sports, etc. don't exist at these alternative schools. Also, it is not a "forever" expulsion, you can usually come back after a year if you stay out of trouble and compelte a rehab plan. (Intervention specific to offense, community service, restitution, maintain attendance/discipline/grades, etc.)

Of course, theory and implementation or TWO different things.

They have wildly different outcomes for say, a hard-core gangbanger versus a good kid going through bad times versus rich kid whose parents bail him out every time.