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Protests follow 'intimacy' expulsion

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100 Li Po Chun pupils rally at principal's home

More than 100 students from Li Po Chun United World College held a candle-light protest outside the principal's house after three teenagers were expelled for breaking an 'inappropriate intimacy' rule, students said.

They said a female student was told to leave on Thursday after being found with a male, and a couple were due to leave yesterday after being found together. It is an offence punishable by expulsion to be found in another student's room after 11pm more than once.

Students who took part in Thursday night's protest, some of whom asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, said the 'intimacy' rule was a 'grey area' and that although the expulsions were the reason for the protests, tensions with principal Stephen Codrington had been brewing for some time.

Dr Codrington refuted students' claims yesterday, describing them as 'kids with an agenda who have decided to create a fiction'.

A student said teachers held 'room raids' from time to time. 'The problem is, it is one big grey area. In the first case a couple were found in bed and it was the second time the girl had been discovered, but in the second case the students weren't doing anything.'

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