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A fifth-grader has been expelled from one in every of Los Angeles’ most prestigious non-public colleges for sending a pal a squirt gun emoji and rap lyrics, prompting a lawsuit from the boy’s dad and mom.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court got here after the 10-year-old was expelled from the Curtis School for an e-mail alternate together with his pal containing squirt gun emojis and the lyrics to the YNW Melly rap music “Murder on My Mind.”
The Curtis School is an elite non-public unbiased elementary faculty in Los Angeles and has taught youngsters of celebrities, together with David and Victoria Beckham. The elementary faculty, in response to The Hollywood Reporter, prices $28,760 per yr.
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The lawsuit, obtained by KKTV, alleges that the Head of School Meera Ratnesar unfairly disciplined the boy “with out proof that his e-mail alternate broke a faculty coverage.”
The dad and mom of the 10-year-old search to reverse the expulsion of the 10-year-old boy from the Curtis School 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 stated.
The boy’s dad and mom 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, “Murder on my thoughts” on Sept. 8.
The pal, additionally within the fifth grade, stated, “Wake up within the morning I obtained.” The boy responded, “Murder on my thoughts.”
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Over two weeks later, on Sept. 25, the scholars had 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 known as into a gathering with the director and his homeroom teacher to debate the emails, however the court docket paperwork declare the boy was not proven the precise emails.
Ratnesar met with the boy’s dad and mom and advised them he was expelled and instantly barred from campus.
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The faculty despatched out the next assertion to native media shops:
“While we had been disillusioned 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 stated. “We are unable to touch upon particular person college students.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Curtis School for remark.
