A fifth-grader has been expelled from certainly one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious personal faculties for sending a buddy a squirt gun emoji and rap lyrics, prompting a lawsuit from the boy’s mother and father.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court docket got here after the 10-year-old was expelled from the Curtis Faculty for an e-mail alternate together with his buddy containing squirt gun emojis and the lyrics to the YNW Melly rap music “Homicide on My Thoughts.”
The Curtis Faculty is an elite personal impartial elementary faculty in Los Angeles and has taught youngsters of celebrities, together with David and Victoria Beckham. The elementary faculty, based on The Hollywood Reporter, prices $28,760 per 12 months.
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The lawsuit, obtained by KKTV, alleges that the Head of Faculty Meera Ratnesar unfairly disciplined the boy “with out proof that his e-mail alternate broke a college coverage.”
The mother and father of the 10-year-old search to reverse the expulsion of the 10-year-old boy from the Curtis Faculty together with paying the household’s attorneys’ charges.
“[The] determination to expel [the student] and bar him from campus is bigoted and capricious,” the lawsuit mentioned.
The boy’s mother and father are suing, saying the choice to expel their son from the about $29,000-per-year faculty was “arbitrary and capricious.” (Google Maps – Screenshot)
The paperwork state that the boys exchanged lyrics from the 2018 rap music, “Homicide on my thoughts” on Sept. 8.
The buddy, additionally within the fifth grade, mentioned, “Get up within the morning I bought.” The boy responded, “Homicide on my thoughts.”
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Over two weeks later, on Sept. 25, the scholars have been emailing one another throughout their shared first interval math class and despatched a number of squirt gun emojis.
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On September 30, the boy was referred to as into a gathering with the director and his homeroom trainer to debate the emails, however the courtroom paperwork declare the boy was not proven the precise emails.
Ratnesar met with the boy’s mother and father and instructed them he was expelled and instantly barred from campus.
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The faculty despatched out the next assertion to native media retailers:
“Whereas we have been disenchanted to study in regards to the litigation, our precedence is to make sure a protected and safe campus for all of our college students,” the assertion mentioned. “We’re unable to touch upon particular person college students.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Curtis Faculty for remark.
