A fifth-grader has been expelled from certainly one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious non-public faculties 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 docket got here after the 10-year-old was expelled from the Curtis Faculty for an electronic mail change together with his pal containing squirt gun emojis and the lyrics to the YNW Melly rap tune “Murder on My Mind.”
The Curtis Faculty is an elite non-public unbiased elementary college in Los Angeles and has taught kids of celebrities, together with David and Victoria Beckham. The elementary college, in line with The Hollywood Reporter, prices $28,760 per yr.
Inside of classroom in elementary college. Row of empty desks are in illuminated room. (iStock)
The lawsuit, obtained by KKTV, alleges that the Head of Faculty Meera Ratnesar unfairly disciplined the boy “without evidence that his email exchange broke a school policy.”
The dad and mom 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] decision to expel [the student] and bar him from campus is arbitrary and capricious,” the lawsuit mentioned.
The boy’s dad and mom are suing, saying the choice to expel their son from the about $29,000-per-year college was “arbitrary and capricious.” (Google Maps – Screenshot)
The paperwork state that the boys exchanged lyrics from the 2018 rap tune, “Murder on my mind” on Sept. 8.
The pal, additionally within the fifth grade, mentioned, “Wake up in the morning I got.” The boy responded, “Murder on my mind.”
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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.
A faculty bus arrives at George Mason Elementary Faculty in Alexandria, VA on August 21, 2023. (Craig Hudson for The Washington Submit by way of Getty Pictures)
On September 30, the boy was referred to as into a gathering with the director and his homeroom instructor to talk about the emails, however the courtroom paperwork declare the boy was not proven the particular emails.
Ratnesar met with the boy’s dad and mom and informed them he was expelled and instantly barred from campus.
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The college despatched out the next assertion to native media shops:
“While we were disappointed to learn about the litigation, our priority is to ensure a safe and secure campus for all of our students,” the assertion mentioned. “We are unable to comment on individual students.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Curtis Faculty for remark.
