{"id":285118,"date":"2025-11-15T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/285118\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:29:08","slug":"indian-origin-student-aarav-expelled-from-school-in-australia-for-participating-in-national-tennis-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/285118\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-origin student Aarav expelled from school in Australia for participating in national tennis tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/an-indian-origin-student-in-sydney-has-been-expelled-from-school-for-attending-a-national-tennis-tou.jpeg\" alt=\"Indian-origin student Aarav expelled from school in Australia for participating in national tennis tournament\" title=\"An Indian-origin student in Sydney has been expelled from school for attending a national tennis tournament. \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>An Indian-origin student in Sydney has been expelled from school for attending a national tennis tournament.  Aarav, a 12-year-old Indian-origin student in Sydney, has been expelled by his school after he attended a national tennis tournament without informing the school authorities. According to Australian media reports, Aarav found out on the first day of Tennis Australia&#8217;s week-long, invite-only age championships that he was expelled by the Redeemer Baptist School in North Parramatta. His parents, Hari and Lavanya, said they were shocked by the school&#8217;s decision, as Aarav did not ignore his studies and is actually a straight-A student. They said Aarav only missed two days of school this year for tennis.&#8221;I requested he be excused for this week and they came back with &#8230; we are withdrawing his enrollment and expelling him from the school, the parents told A Current Affair, a television program&#8221;Three to four days a week he finishes school at 3.30pm &#8230; and has to be in the court at 5 o&#8217;clock, play until 8.30pm, come back, shower, sit and do his homework,&#8221; his mother said. Aarav too shared how he squeezes out time for homework. &#8220;I do homework during school hours, recess and lunch, and on the school bus. I don&#8217;t think I should be expelled for missing a week to go to some major event for nationals and stuff like that,&#8221; Aarav said. Hari said they had been unable to find a school to take him immediately but had secured enrolment for next year.<\/p>\n<p>School cites rulebook, defends decision to expel Aarav<\/p>\n<p>Russell Bailey, headmaster at Redeemer School, said the rulebook mandates 90% attendance and parents should seek advance permission if the child is taken for activities not related to the school. &#8220;We require parents to seek advance permission when their child requires absence for sporting events or other activities that are not school-related \u2013 and this allows us to work with families to minimise any impact on education,&#8221; the headmaster said. &#8220;We have supported students with this approach as they have competed in high-level competitions across a range of inter-school, statewide, national and international competitions including in archery, golf, gymnastics, athletics, computing, football, music and science,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Indian-origin student in Sydney has been expelled from school for attending a national tennis tournament. 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