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A 20-year-old student at prestigious boarding school Sigtuna, the alma mater of King Carl XVI Gustaf, has sued his school for a million kronor ($139,500) after he has been barred from graduation due to suspicions of bullying, according to daily Aftonbladet.
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I also completely disagree that bullying problems are the schools responsibility or should give them the power of barring someone from graduating. He paid his tuition and that alone should give him every right to graduate. The only acceptable reason to disallow him from doing so would be cheating.
'Being an alumni ..... I have also heard that the students were forced to sit in prison'
This being Sweden it seems very unlikely that school kids were kept in prison - but you wrote 'I also heard' - so you don't claim to actually know. You also suggest 'the situation was a cry wolf' - meaning not true. Do you have any actual knowledge or are you just smearing the complainants.
You wrote: 'I also completely disagree that bullying problems are the schools responsibility or should give them the power of barring someone from graduating.'
This is a boarding school, where students must stay overnight, and so a bullied student cannot easily escape a tormenting or physically abusive group. Why shouldn't the school be allowed to enforce the threat of expulsion to protect other students from beatings?
Not fair if every bullied student has to quit for lack of protection from the institution where they go to school, or stay until they are beaten so badly that the police have to come in and make arrests.
The kid broke the school's code of conduct, which probably has his signature on it. I say, make an example out of him. It apparently is long overdue at this school.
@StockholmSam. Technicaly he has not, as he is yet to be found guilty.
Whatever the events they warranted police action. The school is acting properly. I wonder if the parents or the cohorts of the bullies bullied half of the school to sign a petition to allow them to participate in graduation activities. Hopefully, this will not be a once in a lifetime event for these bullies. In the future I hope they are made sorely aware that there is always somebody bigger & stronger and their activities are unacceptable in our society.