Agreed. I don’t want the school to be involved in things off campus. Take your kid to a firing range? Expulsion. Your child takes a tylenol without a doctors script? Expulsion or suspension. He has a fight with the neighbor’s kid? Expulsion or suspension. The legal system needs to deal with legal problems not the school.
School is school, public is public.
One of the young men has pleaded guilty, I have no problem with him being expelled for his crime. The other, charged with murder, is still awaiting trial. Expulsion is improper until he is found guilty.
In any case, the young men are in jail so they don’t present any threat to the school. This is just a paper shuffle to see who will pay for the students GED.
Schools should not be playing nanny. But I’m still torn on whether or not the school should have expelled these dirtbags. But it probably is a moot point since both are in prison awaiting trial.