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October 13, 2005 | Fred Alvarez, Times Staff Writer
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.
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September 23, 2005 | Seema Mehta, Times Staff Writer
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.
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October 20, 2004 | From Times Wire Services
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.
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November 1, 2003 | Allison Hoffman and Wendy Thermos, Times Staff Writers
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.
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October 18, 2003 | From Times Wire Reports
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.
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January 24, 2003 | John M. Glionna and Chris O'Connell Special to The Times, Special to The Times
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."