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Did Charlie Dillon deserve to get expelled?


A friend of mine was caught cheating on an American history test (we were in grade 11 at the time and this was in a Catholic high school in Canada). He received a mark of zero on the test in question and his parents were called to the school principal's office, but he was let off with a warning and eventually managed to pass the course in question. I personally think that students deserve a second chance in situations like that. I wonder whether school policies with regard to cheating/plagiarism tended to be stricter in the past (could depend on the specific country examined). Cheating is generally severely punished at the university level, but seems not to be as heavily penalized at the high school or middle school level.
Have there been any cases of students being expelled for non-serial cheating while in high school?

Also, I wonder whether David could have let Dillon off the hook... This could have eventually led to the two protagonists' reconciliation (and a happier ending to the film).



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Short answer. No, he didn't.

The school deserved got shot down cause that school cause severe psychological damage to the students. Schools like this are responsible for kids committing suicide.

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In the United States, children are advanced through public school REGARDLESS of their ability to understand the material in the course. You pass and advance to the next grade because of yer age. One example: a kid graduated and was offered a position as the public school janitor. After two years he decided he wanted a job at a gasoline station and axed a bartender for assistance in filling out a job application. The bartender axed him his middle name, and the kid pulled something out of his wallet and showed it to the bartender. (His middle name btw was Dominic). The bartender said, "You don't know how to spell your own middle name!?" And the kid said, "Why, I never use it". So, that's the state of affairs in most of the public schools in America.
Also, in California, the Teacher's Union was told that their next raise was dependent on how improved the test scores were for that year. Lo and behold, test scores across the entire county shot up by 28%. You guessed it, the teachers simply penciled in better grades. In Georgia teachers were caught GIVING answers to the kids.
If a teacher in the U.S. holds a kid back because he doesn't know the material the parents fly into a rage and demand the teacher be removed because "my child isn't stupid". Meanwhile the kid is out all night smoking dope with his doper pals and never turns in homework, and by the way, now there's idiot teachers who think homework isn't necessary at all.
If you have a business in the U.S. you should never hire someone who couldn't graduate high school because as we all know, high school teaches you to show up on time, and it's only for 9 moths of the year where as there's no summer vacation when you start working for a living.

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You're talking about public schools; the school in the movie, though, was an elite private school.

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