As some have written, schools have a responsibility to other students and therefore, on rare occasions, should expel a student that is endagering others physically or spiritually. The problem that I have with this instance is that it wasn’t that the school had observed problems with the child, given the child a chance to changer her behavior, and then, only after she did not change, expel her. Rather, other parents threatened the school and the school caved, going against its own judgment, to expel a child on the first day (!) of school.
That the school caved is sad. That parents would call and make such threats is even sadder. One wonders at the influence they are having on their own children.