Speaking of the 14th amendment, isn't this:
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"We got the paperwork for the expulsion Friday in the mail. So they had sent the paperwork out before they had even doen the hearing saying she was expelled", says Amber's mother Kristi Heinz.
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a violation of due process. I know schools get some exceptions in certain circumstances, but I don't think they get an out on this. In my high school a kid who phoned in a bomb threat was expelled without even having a hearing. After his parents got a lawyer involved he was allowed to return for precisely that reason. Of course my high school had a due process clause right in the rulebook, maybe that's not the case everywhere?