Mom in court over boy’s dagga expulsion
Durban - The mother of a Grade 8 Ballito schoolboy who was expelled after testing positive for dagga, has launched an urgent high court application challenging the school’s authority to randomly test pupils using shop-bought urine sampling kits.
But while the mother – who works in the legal profession – insists the school’s conduct was “unconstitutional and unlawful” and that her son must be reinstated, the school says its zero-tolerance drug policy is crucial because the upmarket suburb is the “crucible for drug taking and dealing on the North Coast”.
“We go to great lengths to ensure the school remains drug-free and anti-drug. It is as important to us as education,” Ashton College head Petrus Erasmus said in his affidavit which came before Judge Gregory Kruger on Tuesday.
“The learners are all aware that he was expelled and why he was expelled. If he were permitted to return, it would...
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