Student Expulsions

Preschool teachers who are highly stressed because of classroom conditions, depression or other factors are far more likely than their colleagues to recommend expulsion for children with behavioral problems, according to a study released Thursday. Conducted by Yale University's Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, the study found that of teachers who reported high job stress, 14.3% also reported one or more expulsions in the last year, while 4.

A Christian school in Ontario expelled a student Thursday because her parents are lesbians, according to a letter from the school's superintendent. Freshman Shay Clark, 14, was told to leave Ontario Christian High School after administrators learned of her parents' relationship this week. "Your family does not meet the policies of admission," Supt. Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, Shay's biological mother.

Even Daniel Bautista's parents agreed he should have been suspended for bringing a knife to school, although they believed their 13-year-old son when he said he had forgotten it was in his pants pocket. But Jorge and Rose Bautista said the eighth-grader did not deserve to be removed from Sycamore Canyon School in Thousand Oaks.

A French school expelled two girls Tuesday for wearing Muslim head scarves, the first students to be kicked out since Paris imposed a ban on religious symbols in state schools last month. In Paris, Education Minister Francois Fillon said about 70 additional students risk expulsion for defying the law. They include three Sikh boys who went to court Tuesday seeking to continue wearing their turbans, in the first known court action over the ban.

Both fraternities involved in Wednesday's deadly predawn melee will be suspended and those found to have participated in the violence will be expelled, San Jose State University President Robert L. Caret said Thursday. "The university will not tolerate thuggish or ganglike behavior from any of its students," Caret said. "Those responsible for it have no place on our campus."

Three seventh-grade boys from a Tulare County school face expulsion after being accused of sexually assaulting at least five girls on campus, school officials said. Tulare County sheriff's detectives began investigating the complaints from girls this week. The boys are accused of holding the girls, groping them and forcing them into sexual positions. No other sex acts are alleged to have occurred, said Sheriff's Lt. Donna Perry. Two of the boys are 12 and one is 13.

Three high school students -- a sophomore girl and two junior boys -- have been expelled from an exclusive preparatory school in the Sepulveda Pass for allegedly making a sexually explicit video and distributing it on school grounds. The trio made the video last spring, when the girl was still a freshman, said Rennie Wrubel, head of Milken Community High School, which is affiliated with the Stephen S. Wise Temple. She said none of the three had records of disciplinary problems.

A school can expel a teenage boy who wrote a letter during summer vacation threatening to rape and murder his ex-girlfriend, a divided federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The Pulaski County school district learned of the threat after one of the eighth-grader's friends stole the letter. Northwood Junior High principal Bob Allison expelled the boy, citing the district's conduct rules. The boy's parents sued.

Cracking down on unprepared students, the California State University system kicked out about 2,000 students--more than 6% of last year's freshman class--for failing to master basic English and math skills within their first year of classes. In an annual report on remedial education released Tuesday, university officials also said they have stepped up efforts to help high school juniors and seniors improve their skills before college.

Cracking down on unprepared students, the California State University system kicked out about 2,000 students--more than 6% of last year's freshman class--for failing to master basic English and math skills within their first year of classes. Of those, 185 were at Cal State Fullerton, 7.7% of last year's freshmen on that campus.