{"id":276890,"date":"2025-11-11T04:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276890\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T04:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:34:10","slug":"australian-student-expelled-after-playing-in-tennis-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276890\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian student expelled after playing in tennis tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">Aarav\u2019s days are taken up by school, training and homework, his mum told the programme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI do homework during school hours, recess and lunch, and on the school bus\u201d, the student said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI don\u2019t think I should be expelled for missing a week to go to some major event for nationals and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">His parents have not found a school for him to attend immediately, but have lined up enrolment for next year, they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">The school\u2019s headmaster Russell Bailey said in a statement to the programme that parents are required to \u201cseek advance permission when their child requires absence for sporting events or other activities that are not school-related\u201c.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">The school was unable to discuss the situations of individual students because of privacy laws, Bailey said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHowever, in general terms, we can say that we will revoke an enrolment if a parent repeatedly fails to follow the school\u2019s requirements and does not work with us in the interests of their child\u2019s education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">School fees do not need to be paid after that point. <\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cGiven our expectations are clear from the start, this happens very rarely, and it is a very sad and disappointing outcome for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aarav\u2019s days are taken up by school, training and homework, his mum told the programme. \u201cI do homework&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[9490,64,63,81,22806,22279,160592,4717,621,84997,65751,58671,20637,85,30024,747,16494],"class_list":["post-276890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-after","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-been","tag-competition","tag-expelled","tag-in","tag-national","tag-played","tag-playing","tag-private","tag-school","tag-sports","tag-student","tag-tennis","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}