Posted AT 5:00 AM EDT on 04/02/08
Ontario teen expelled for fiction-writing exercise
TORONTO — A 17-year-old student has been expelled from his Brampton, Ont., high school for a fictional essay he submitted in a creative writing class about a disgruntled student who murders one of her teachers.
Brendan Jones, a Grade 12 student at Heart Lake Secondary School northwest of Toronto, was expelled last week, leaving him facing an uncertain future.
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