Writing a letter to the Principle

[Beefy187]

One of my friend got expelled from the school I go to for attempting to steal the test but the she got caught.

Shes a person who would never do something like that. Shes normally a very hard working person and I have no idea why she decided to cheat. She says she made a serious mistake and she would never do it again. Its her last year in high school and term 1 is already finished. It would be hell for her if she have to go to other school and only having 3 terms to adjust. Plus shes a boarder so thats extra hard.

So I decided to write a letter to the principle saying if they can at least suspend them for a week or two instead of expell. But im not sure if I can convince them or not.

Can I have some advice about what I can do/write? That would be really helpful.

[Caius]

Be polite. And dont explain that you want the suspension, you want a "reconsideration".

[Craterus]

Offer ...favours.

[Ramses II CP]

Assuming this is High School or your local equivilent; in my experience if you send such a letter you're simply inviting trouble for yourself. I was that guy at my school, constantly rubbing the teachers and administration's faces in the fact that they were grossly unfair. It was entertaining, but pointless. They threatened to 'hold my diploma' in the end and I threatened to humiliate them by publishing a few choice bits of particularly pathetic information in some local papers. We settled on inactive mutual animosity and I moved on and found more important things to do with my free time.

I advise your friend to do the same. Yes, it will be hard on her, but spending her last year fighting a batch of fools locked onto a particular course won't be any easier than just going on and getting started with her second chance.

Good luck.

[Beefy187]

Thanks for quick replies.

The person im talking about attends to grade 12 of the highschool. She went asking quite a lot of peoples to write a letter for her and most peoples seems to be sympathetic to her. Im no good at fighting head on argueing especially with high authorities. And threatening them in definitely not my intention. Hopefully using the number of reconcidaration letter will lighten her penalty a bit.

Our school has forgiven other girl who got expelled earlier and she was expelled for violent action. Considering its the first time that my friend got anything higher then a warning I hope that our letters help.

[Ice]

Sorry man, I don't really feel bad for you friend.

Kids would steal exams in high school and the entire class would have to pay for it because the instructor would get pissed and write a new, harder exam.

I'd always like to meet one of those kids and punch them in the face.

Anyway, getting expelled senior year really would suck, so I guess I'll hope for the best for your friend.

[Mete Han]

One of my friend got expelled from the school I go to for attempting to steal the test but the she got caught.

Shes a person who would never do something like that. Shes normally a very hard working person and I have no idea why she decided to cheat. She says she made a serious mistake and she would never do it again. Its her last year in high school and term 1 is already finished. It would be hell for her if she have to go to other school and only having 3 terms to adjust. Plus shes a boarder so thats extra hard.

So I decided to write a letter to the principle saying if they can at least suspend them for a week or two instead of expell. But im not sure if I can convince them or not.

Can I have some advice about what I can do/write? That would be really helpful.

5 of my friends were expelled from highschool for stealing exams. Most of them were really hard working, I guess too much ambition makes you do things like that. It would be really difficult to save her from expulsion but it is worth a try. I am sorry for I had to go through the same thing. Do something altoghether like the whole class going to the admin. One person would not make a difference but if you guys can unite you will have a shot.

[The Stranger]

one thing I'd like to know... did she tried to steal it for thrill or because she was afraid she'd fail... if it was for thrill I say give her a medal, I like that... the only reason I'd ever steal exams is for thrill... its the only reason I cheat... school is so boring otherwise...

seriously I never got the reason why people are so afraid for exams... im having them now... and in 6 years I havent done less for school than this year and i never did anything for school... and my grades are higher than ever... only drawback is that my arm aches... cuz i never wrote as much as this year...

[Husar]

I cheated once, almost accidentally I looked at someone else's paper and copied an entry in a completely unimportant english vocabulary test.
I felt a bit bad getting rated better than I should so I told the teacher and he said it was okay and didn't rate that entry.

Now trying to steal an exam is a little bit more serious, and while expelling her completely for that seems a bit harsh at first, if she went to certain lenths like going into restricted areas (teachers' rooms etc) to get it, well, I can understand the sentence. There are certain laws and restrictions and if you break them you may have to accept the consequences.

[Beefy187]

The circumstances was pretty extreme.

The story I heard said that the two students prepared a key to the room which had the tests in it. They opened the door but they got caught. Although this is not confirmed by this girls.

If that story is true then it means that they had clear intention of stealing the exam. So the consequences should be pretty high. As Pever said, first reaction of the school was instant failure of the exam and suspencion. I am not sure why they changed to expell but I can see why.

However unlike the other girl that Pever mentioned (the girl who throw a bible) who was constantly in trouble for violence and other stuff, the girl/ girls who got expelled this time are hard working A standerd students who havnt done anything more then maybe coming late to class.

Being a christian school, apparently our policy is forgiving students if they apologize so ill send it to our year level coordinator and perhaps the principle.

I hope it works.

To TS:They were afraid to fail. I dont understand why people cant just enjoy the test and laugh out loud when they fail and blame them selves for it. However I got a fealing that the persons buddy who also got caught was enjoying it.

[Ramses II CP]

Throwing a Bible got someone expelled? That's hilarious, and I thought I went to a redneck school.

Oh, wait, I see above she hit someone with it. That's a little different... but no less hilarious.