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School's version of a breakup text: final, public, and someone else reads your file.
means The official forcing-out of someone from a place, group, or position, usually for breaking a rule badly enough that return isn't an option.
from From Latin expellere — 'ex' (out) plus 'pellere' (to drive, push, beat). The same 'pellere' root gives us 'propel' and 'repel,' so expulsion is literally a driving-out, the same physics as pushing someone off a ledge, just with paperwork.
- last resort
- supposedly used only after all else fails
- hidden cost
- expelled students are far more likely to be jailed later
- racial gap
- black students expelled at roughly triple the rate of white peers
- root word
- from latin expellere, literally to drive out