Bert, on the other hand, was not keen on his son's growing interest in the guitar, especially after he was expelled from school for a variety of misdemeanors.

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Lisa Pott, the stepmother of Audrie, said the three suspects were removed from the football team after her suicide but weren't expelled from school, despite their pleas to the principal.

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After being expelled from school at the age of 14 he took on a variety of jobs, including message boy in the printing trade, apprentice electrician, apprentice baker and builder's labourer.

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He began carrying a notebook everywhere, sketching shoes. (One of his early drawings depicts a cloven stiletto, with two heels.) Louboutin, who had kept up his absenteeism, was expelled from school when he was sixteen.

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Born in a suburb of Algiers, Jacques was expelled from his school at the age of 12 because of the Vichy government's racial laws.

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He did not earn much gratitude for intervening on behalf of six black students expelled from a Decatur, Illinois, high school for brawling at a football match.

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Despite recommendations from Pima Community College that Loughner undergo a mental evaluation after the school expelled him, his parents never followed up.

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