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Currently, if a child is excluded or expelled from one school, the Ministry can direct another to take them on.
But principals said that was a problem if there was no good support in place - and they commissioned a legal opinion to back them up.
The Principals Federation released that legal opinion today.
The review, by Quigg Partners, said: A school should never be put in a position by virtue of a direction which results in the school being prevented from carrying out its primary obligations. When a school finds itself in such a position, we consider that the school would have strong grounds to have the direction judicially reviewed.
A school which closed for two learning days while it hosted a massive tangi for a senior Mongrel Mob member has hit out at criticism by opposition MP Simeon Brown, calling his comments ignorant and racist.