{"id":129086,"date":"2025-11-11T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129086\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:02:09","slug":"australian-student-expelled-after-playing-in-tennis-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129086\/","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":129087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,1135,1558,4596,89418,78,3556,111,139,69,61492,5415,1136,4062,213,9631,3217,16559],"class_list":{"0":"post-129086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-australian","10":"tag-been","11":"tag-competition","12":"tag-expelled","13":"tag-in","14":"tag-national","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-played","19":"tag-playing","20":"tag-private","21":"tag-school","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-student","24":"tag-tennis","25":"tag-tournament"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}