San Diego's Expulsion Purgatory
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Shakaijah Calvin, 13, and her mother Mavis Thompson were upset that she was initially turned away from her neighborhood public school after being kicked out of a charter school.
Posted: Sunday, April 11, 2010 11:20 am | Updated: 5:13 pm, Sun Apr 11, 2010.
Thirteen year old Shakaijah Calvin had been out of school for more than a month after O'Farrell Community Charter School kicked her out for a string of problems. Her mother Mavis Thompson rattled off her misdeeds: Not wearing the right uniform. Swiping a cell phone from a classmate.
But when Thompson showed up to enroll her daughter at her neighborhood public school, Bell Middle, the principal turned her away. He gave her a terse, handwritten note to for the O'Farrell school director.
