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UK: Three Boys Expelled By Fettes Over Drugs
Gillian Harris (Scotland Correspondent) The Times
Wednesday 06 Feb 2002 THREE pupils have been expelled from Fettes College in Edinburgh for taking drugs. The sixth-form boys were asked to leave the independent school, where Tony Blair was a pupil, after two separate incidents in the same week. A spokesman for the school confirmed that two boys were found with cannabis at a sixth-form party last Saturday and that another, aged 17, had failed a drugs test after a business studies trip to Belgium. Michael Spens, the headmaster, said that school regulations on the issue of drug misuse were widely understood. "These pupils have been very foolish and they have been punished. For them this is a personal tragedy," he said. "The school line is very clear. . . If a pupil is found with drugs they can be told to leave the school and if there is any question of doubt they are asked to take a drugs test." Mr Spens insisted that drug-taking at the school, which costs up to UKP17,000 a year for full boarding pupils, was not a serious problem. A spokesman for the school denied that Fettes would now follow the example of Edinburgh Academy by introducing random drugs tests. The academy last week asked the parents of a number of pupils aged 14 who had admitted taking cannabis to pay UKP50 for future drug tests.
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