Are Expulsions Race-Based? Are Expulsions Centralized To Lower-Income Areas? School Board Won’t Say…
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2025 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Like a television series where characters are offed at the end of the season, at least fifteen students in the Palm Beach County School District won’t be back for the start of the 2025-2026 school year. The Palm Beach County School Board is set to expel the students during its regular meeting on Wednesday.
Little is known about why the students are being expelled, their specific schools or grade levels. The Palm Beach County School Board, in a policy that seems to permit race-based and geographic-based expulsions by shielding demographic information from the public, refuses to release even basic data regarding the students being kicked out. We don’t know if they are all from certain parts of Palm Beach County, or if students in high-wealth areas like Boca Raton are less likely to face expulsion than students in low-income areas.
All of the fifteen students being expelled allegedly violated the “zero tolerance policy” for bringing banned items to schools, which could include tasers, guns, knives, or other weapons. However, without even broad details, it’s impossible to know if the School Board’s claim that offenders were given “due process” is actually true.
The explusions were “signed off” upon by Keith Oswald, Chief of Student Health and Wellness for the Palm Beach County School District.
Sounds like a microcosm of our current federal government.
We as taxpayers should have transparency, no names to protect the minors but the board should not be allowed hide information from the public who has elected them. What is their reason for withholding such information and is expulsion permanent or temporary?
Doesn’t sound like you know what “expulsion” means. I’ll Help you. It means PERMANENT!
Actually, in Palm Beach County School District speak, you can be expelled for a year and then permitted to return.
My son was almost expelled for a pencil sharpener that was given to him at a school supply event held by the county! We had to argue it with a lawyer who was able to negotiate.
Proper behavior has nothing to do with nationality. Raise your children to know that!
How stupid is this! We as the public should know what’s going on. If the school district isn’t accountable to us then, we should not be paying taxes on our bills to support them.
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